Not sure if the class is a lot easier than the actual school year, but for the summer it was VERY easy. I think it also has to do with the professor. Professor Almohalwas is exceptional and a great lecturer. He's very engaging and can get really up close (especially to students sitting in the front) because he wants students to learn and pay attention. His slides can get very long, but they're are helpful. He assigned six online quizzes that are fair, but drops the lowest score. There's also two extra credit opportunities: one lab and one quiz. The labs are long and you'll probably end up buying the software because there's not enough time in your section to finish it. If you have any questions on it, go to the professor because he'll pretty much spoon feed you the answers. His exams were beyond easy because he practically used the questions from his slides, previous quizzes, and old exams (very important that you attend his lectures and do well on the quizzes). At office hours, he's also helpful and it can get pretty crowded. However, he will do his best to answer your questions. I would definitely recommend this professor to a friend and would take him again for another class.

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Professor Almohalwas is such a great professor. He is very passionate about his teaching and is very easy to approach if you have any questions or need clarity. He is very clear about what he expects and makes all of his lecture notes available online. He provided formula sheets for the midterm and allowed 1 full page front and back of any notes you wanted for the final. Overall, great class! If you study you'll get the grade you deserve.

Pretty much the best professor I've ever had. He genuinely cares so much about his students and it always fair. Great lecturer as well, explained the concepts very well. Such a gem of a person, so glad I took this class with him.

Not as intense as Christou, but also covers less content though.

He started off the quarter at an extremely slow pace, spending weeks reviewing the basic material that was pretty much a repeat of EE131A or equivalent probability courses. This caused him to go waaay too fast when covering the new concepts later on, in order to make up for lost time. You get no more out of the lectures than if you were to stay at home reading the textbook, and to top it all off the TA was not helpful at all either. Take at your own risk.

Almohalwas copied Christou's lecture notes (plus a bunch of other random notes from the Web) and posted an overwhelming amount on CCLE. Slightly disorganized, but he was helpful in explaining the challenging concepts of 100B slowly. If you're looking for a less intense version of 100B, have a solid math background, and can be patient with his disorganizedness, take him.

He is one of the more ineffective lecturers I have taken. It is easier for me to understand the material by reading the slides at my own pace in the comfort of my room. He skims over the example problems he provides during class much too fast for people to actually understand what he is doing. There are also periodic and egregious spelling and grammar errors (and typos) on his quiz questions, slides, and exams. It isn't bad enough to where it's a hindrance, but it is extremely unprofessional. He also periodically just copies pages from the textbook into his lecture in lieu of making his own slide. This is NOT HELPFUL since you have to read all the text on the slide... He also shows an entire page of R code in his lectures from time to time in lieu of actually carrying out the arithmetic and calculations. This is especially frustrating because he just spews out answers without explaining the process. There have also been occasions where he uses DIFFERENT NOTATION for the same variable in the same lecture... And on top of all that, sometimes his calculations are just flat out incorrect... Overall, very frustrating going to class. I always leave a bit angrier and more confused than before. If he wasn't so kind and personable, I would be submitting a formal complaint to the Department of Statistics in a heartbeat.

I took this professor during summer so this class was 6 weeks. At first, I was stressed because I felt as though I wasn't learning the material in an organized fashion when I went to lecture. In fact, I didn't really learn that much during lecture. Every week we have a lab due which appears to be a lot of work until I discovered that they were essentially all graded for completion. Everyone I knew got 100% and that was a large part of the grade. The rest of the grade besides the test is pretty much a guaranteed 100% in the gradebook. There are online quizzes but you can find those answers online as well. The tests are pretty easy. He uses identical questions from the textbook and the problems he gives you in the discussion. He is also very helpful in office hours and works with you if you have any grade issues. The tests are easier than I anticipated and I was seriously freaking out about them since I felt like I didn't learn in lecture. In fact, it's pretty common sense and go along with discussion. Even if you don't know how to do a problem, they grade super easily. I thought I missed an entire written problem on the final (out of four written problem) but I still scored higher than 100%. The only issue is that the class lectures are pretty useless, but the material and tests are easy enough that it doesn't matter. Also, if you've taken AP stats that you're pretty set.

For those signing up for spring quarter classes I wanted to add in a review of my impressions up to week 4 because there aren't many reviews.

He is a funny and nice professor and he yells a lot while lecturing so you won't be bored and it gives the illusion that you won't lose focus and you'll understand things better, but in reality you still somehow end up leaving the classroom wondering what the heck you learned in those 50 minutes. I feel bad saying this because he does seem like a good person but his lecturing is so disorganized. He would benefit from having an agenda of what we should learn by the end of the lecture instead of jumping from webpage to powerpoint slide to blackboard on what seems like a bunch of different tangents.

I'm struggling to do this homework assignment due tomorrow because I have not learned the material necessary to do it.