Overall, he is a very dedicated professor. You don't need the book, he posts up handouts online that he talks about during lecture. The stats labs are pretty easy and the TA goes over most of the homework problems in the discussion. There are three exams and it's open note for all of them. HOWEVER, his tests are pretty difficult even with the notes you have. His curve is pretty generous at the end though. I didn't expect to get an A- since I did about average on the first two midterms.

Christou is an amazing professor! If you have to wait for him for Fall or Spring quarter I def recommend you to do that! He is soooo caring and hilarious! His accent makes it a little hard, but he tries his hardest to get his point across. If you sit in the front or go to his office hours once, he will learn your name and use it in class forever! His tests are hard, but the curve is amazing! Rarely studied, and I got an A. And I am not one of those crazy asians, I am not even asian.

Christou is the shit. I love this man. Everyone gets As, I'm not really sure how, because I don't think everyone really deserves an A, after hearing dumb questions in discussion all the time. He's not really that great of a lecturer, he just kind of goes through things REALLY fast and says "OKAY?!" a lot. He's hilarious though, and he cares about students. He'll remember your name after just meeting you once. It's an easy class.

Professor Christou is an incredibly nice guy.
If you go to office hours (you definitely should), he is a great help and he'll remember your name after meeting you only once.
I would recommend Christou- there is no other guy you would rather take statistics with, and he is very dedicated to his students.
Take your pick of the reasons to take his class: open note tests, digital notes (no giant textbook for the class), long and frequent office hours, positive learning environment, nice guy.

Seriously, i got fooled by the bruinwalk comments that he was a very easy professor. Actually he is not and his test are always weird and nothing like his homework. He taught only one variable distributions in class but on the midterm expected us to do multi-variable distributions. Professor Christou is a very nice and cool person, but watch out for his exams you will be shocked. On the upside the curve is generous.

Professor Christou is a baller. His exams are all open note and his curves are generous. Although I did poorly on both midterms, I passed the class with a B. Suggestions, go to office hours and get to know the guy. Also, keep organized notes because it will make it that much easier to find stuff for the exam.

He is the best professor I've had at UCLA! He's really caring, straightforward, and really nice when you get to know him. Awesome guy! Loved him! Go Nicolas! We all LOVE you!

Easy if you've taken stats before, easy if you haven't taken stats before. Cool guy.

christou pretty much owns. his tests are all open note, fairly straightforwards, and not difficult at all (save some parts of the final). not to mention he is actually a pretty interesting and humorous guy in lecture. his accent pretty much rules, straight up baller g. he is the only professor i kind of miss going to lecture to from last quarter. christou is a really nice guy to talk too as well out of class, and he really cares and remembers stuff about you (major/hometown!)

don't bother going to discussion unless you need to hand in the hw/lab. it's pretty much a waste of time; you can figure the shit out yourself just as easy.

Even if people say he is easy, you need to study. (unless you know the materials through AP Stat or previous class)