DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. SHE IS A PIECE OF SHIT LECTURER.

She is a very caring professor who wants her students to learn. Although she makes a few mistakes during lecture, they are minimal--she is human you know! As for the class, it is a basic fundamental stats class so the material is not too demanding. There is a lot of work, including 2 online quizzes each week, weekly homework, and a lab. The midterm was doable and she was pretty generous with the curve.

Although she is very knowledgeable about Statistics, she is not very good at conveying this knowledge. She is the most confusing teacher I have ever met, and like the person before me said, jumps from subject to subject so quickly that it's difficult to follow what she says and understand the concepts. I learned everything in office hours with my TA, and got a B on the midterm only with his help (although I studied like crazy). Don't take her, unless you must. She cares about student learning, but caring is not going to carry you to your A if she can't communicate herself properly.

Terrible teacher. The class lacks any structure as she jumps around from concept to concept without tying anything together. As mentioned by others, she makes very easy things confusing. Half of the time during lecture she says something incorrect which completely mind fucks the class. She uses examples from her "own research" to explain concepts, but the examples she gives make absolutely no sense. The quizzes and tests are poorly worded, which makes the class go from bad to worse since statistics requires very precise wording. Avoid this teacher if you can.

Esfandiari gives easy quizzes and exams. However, she grades on a curve so it's nearly impossible to get an A. I missed just one question on the midterm and pretty sure I aced the final, but I didn't get an A. She's also easy to push around, meaning if you complain enough about the points you lost, you'll probably get them back. Maybe this contributes to the difficult curve.

She was really nice, and I think she really cared about student learning. In my class she had one midterm, homework, and the final, and of course it was cumulative. Her tests are rather difficult in my opinion. They are open book, but of course that never helps at all. The exams for me were very difficult, but because of the curve I got a b-. She's very helpful, and gives out mock quizzes and things like that though. Maybe I'm just not into stats....but she did make the class interesting with her stories and good sense of humor. I would take another class with her I think. Though sometimes I felt like she didn't very well explain some concepts, overall I think it was ok.

If you have to take stats 10 this is the woman to take it with. Not only is she one of the only women in this department but she really cares about her students. She literally treats you like your mom and is really fair. Her lectures, accent, and mistakes on the board do little damage to your grade. Just read the book and go to section to help you get the big picture. I never read the book nor studied, I just went to class, section, and did the homework and I still got a B with the profesor's help in office hours. Her tests are also open notes and book and had a lot of questions similar to homework and lectures that you could just answer them by looking back at these problems during the test.