If you are even remotely considering taking stats 10....

TAKE IT WITH PROF MICHAEL

"No grade in any class, including this one, is more important than your physical well-being, your mental well-being, and your integrity. Take time to rest, eat, exercise, go for a walk, hang out with friends, speak to a counselor, or whatever it takes to take care of yourself. It might not feel like it, but you are not alone. Be mindful of others’ struggles as well."

This is an excerpt from his syllabus. I have never met in all my years as a student a more caring and underestanding teacher. In addition to being just a genuinely good human being in the sea of coldness that typically comes from math professors, he is actually an amazing teacher, very clear and thorough in his explanations.

I absolutely loathe every second that I spent on this class. All Professor Tsiang does is reading the pdf handout. He does not explain things most of the time ( maybe he assumes that we just know it all? ). This class is hard for people with no previous coding experience. Professor Tsiang will give you the most basic knowledge of R and then give you questions that require a lot of R coding experience. There's a lot of homework, and all the questions are difficult and tricky. Maybe I'm too dumb for this class. I found it quite discouraging talking to professor Tsiang. I don't want to say this, but this is the worst experience that I ever have ever since I attended UCLA.

I LOVED Tsiang! If you have any sort of previous knowledge of a programming language, this class will be very easy for you. Even if you don't, the professor is great and I enjoyed lectures. Very easy grader as well.

TAKE THIS CLASS!! I had to take two previous statistics courses, and I didn't learn half as much in those two classes as I did just in Dr. Mike's class this quarter. He genuinely cares about his students, and is one of the best professors, possibly one of the best educators, I have ever been taught by. His love for his students and for UCLA is incredible and if he isn't tenured as soon as possible I'll be speaking personally with Gene Block, because Dr. Mike deserves the best UCLA has to offer. (plus if you like Parks & Rec, he makes a lot of Leslie Knope jokes, which is a plus). Bottom line, if you need a quantitative reasoning GE to be fulfilled, take Stats 10 with Dr. Mike, you won't regret it.

Best statistics professor in UCLA. Wish he taught more upper divs. Even if you're not intending to major in stats, take this class as a GE. He allows cheat sheet for midterm and final.

I personally really liked Professor Tsiang, he seemed really relatable and always slipped in funny TV show references on tests and in lectures and instructions. He was genuinely caring towards students' well being, especially mental health. He stressed this multiple times throughout the quarter, gave us free points on quizzes and exams related to this, and extended deadlines when he felt the workload was too much. Additionally, no textbook was required and you get everything you need just from his lectures. They were generally shorter lectures too, the allotted time is normally 50 min a lecture but most of the time they were closer to 30-40 minutes. The labs were pretty straight forward, with the instructions basically telling you everything you need, so don't stress for people who haven't used R or coded before!
That being said, I did feel that there was a lot of work for this class, weekly quizzes, homework, and biweekly labs. It was manageable if you didn't leave things to the last minute however. I felt that the graders were a bit harsh, but still did well on most assignments. Prof Tsiang did require Campuswire participation, which you could also get EC through which I thought might be a nuisance at first, but was super easy and the majority of the class got most points for this. I would say try to get most of your points early on so you don't have to worry about it as much later on, but I checked Campuswire maybe three times a week and tried to answer or ask a question each time and achieved the extra credit level before week 8.
The exams were a bit harder, but you have plenty of time and open notes so I think just understanding concepts, and understanding the wording Professor emphasizes and keeping a diagram of the validity conditions is super helpful. He does not provide practice questions, so I reviewed the quizzes and did some from the suggested (but not required) textbook.

Material is completely new to me. The professor made it fun to learn R. Take Junhyung Park as your TA if you can.

This is the best professor I've ever had at UCLA. He really cared about the students and never took points off for minor mistakes. The TA Jake is the best TA in the world: he never yelled at us. I don't understand why here are so many negative comments about these two wonderful and lovely people. I would definitely take Michael again!

Professor Tsiang, or Mike, is AMAZING! Although I only took STATS 10 as a GE, it was one of the best classes that I've taken at UCLA. Not only is he super clear with his explanations, he's also very funny. He's very eager to help you out and excited to teach. 10/10 would recommend!!!

Well, I feel mixed about this class. Tsiang is really a nice person. Besides what I experiencing in the class, I do really like him. He always care about the students and let us know that wellbeing is the most important thing in our life. But I don't think this class is meaningful.

First, the class is just like from CS department. As a CS major students, R is not a good language to write functions. But we have to spend more than 5-10 hours if you decided to finish all the homework(based on completion, you can show you hard working to get a full credit.). It's not difficult for me but very boring.

If you have coding experience and not a stats major, buy a book for R and don't take it. Else if you(haha) are a beginner, maybe this is a gate for coding. Don't take it as a stats class, it's a CS class. Trust me.

Second, the exams are very difficult. I have no idea how my classmates can get a perfect score on it. But this class is not a GPA killer, prof will curve your score. Even you mess up all the exam, you can get a B or even a A-.

STATS 20 will let you feel depressed. But you will learn a lot. Make the decision by your own.