Wow, this guy is literally the G.O.A.T.

Stats 100B is probably one of the hardest statistics courses at UCLA, but this professor made it incredibly easy to understand and definitely made the material interesting to learn with real-life examples and applications. (NOTE: This applies to his summer course. I am not sure if this will necessarily apply to his regular quarter courses). He is also super patient and helpful in office hours as well. I think this guy is underrated, especially when everyone raves about Christou. However, Almohalwas is probably one of my favorite professors so far at UCLA. The homework is incredibly INCREDIBLY helpful for the exams. MAKE SURE TO DO THEM AND UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO EACH PROBLEM because again they are VERY HELPFUL for the exams! Also, he gives out extra credit on his final and a bunch of other free points (attendance, participation, etc). Also, he is a little bit messy as the previous reviews have stated (there are files everywhere on CCLE), but he just wants to give you all of the material you will ever need to help you succeed and master the course. Honestly, the hardest part about his class is that the class is essentially straight-scaled (since everyone knows the material really well and so do really well on the exams). So, it may be hard to come back if you don't do that great on one of the exams. However, it is very doable to get an A.

Literally, amazing and highly underrated in my opinion. 10/10 would recommend and would take the class again. I look forward to taking more upper-division courses with him. This guy is definitely a few standard deviations above the mean for amazing professors!

Overall, the class has been quite a good experience for me. I find Dr. Almohalwas was organized enough in the lectures (attend lectures! they are very important). The problem is not about him but about the course itself: the materials are so scattered around between theories and R outputs. His tests require you to know your R results very well, so prepare towards them instead of just formulas. Lecture slides are often very long ( about 80 slides), but in lecture he will show you where to focus. Overall, Dr. Almohawas is very caring and understanding (2% extra credit, lenient finals grading, giving hints for modeling project,...). I strongly recommend him. You just have to make sure you understand what he teaches in R very well.

Professor Almohalwas is extremely disorganized. The lecture slides are basically consisted of screenshots from online sources, and the lecture notes he gave to us is so messy that it is so hard to find anything you need in it, it's like some code with scratches on the side. Tests are not hard but so messy. Do not take this professor if you expect to learn and understand things from lecture!

First Bruinwalk review ever since I was shocked at the ratings this professor currently has. Here's the thing: this class is not a traditional "come in, read the slides, study the slides, get a grade" kind of class. This class is primarily about the application of linear regression theory in R and understanding the output. For that reason, most of the class is actually just showing students the code for different models and talking through the output.

If you approach the class knowing this, and take notes accordingly, you will do very well. The professor could certainly improve on CCLE organization, but when it comes down to teaching, he is wonderful and I highly recommend his class.

If you consider copying slides from others and being utterly disorganized as a style, then yes he has a style. He crossed the other professors' names off the slides he copied in the hope we won't notice.

Given that, my friends and I self-studied most of the material as his lectures are not helpful. His final tested the last two chapters (9 in total) which he quickly covered in week 10 because we were running out of time.

Take Christou instead if you want to learn

This is the best professor I've ever taken. His lecture is very vivid, and he answers questions quite promptly! I would definitely take him again.

I don't see why people love this guy. He does not come off as friendly, and he is so disorganized its crazy. Our midterm was so long no one had any chance of finishing it; i hate when professors do that. Avoid avoid avoid avoid, trust me.

The class wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. All I can really say is that discussion sections and the textbook are important. You get lab and discussion worksheet answers during the discussion sections so make sure you go. The midterms were pretty straightforward and similar to the homework problems he provides.

This class was not as nearly bad as I thought it was going to be. When enrolling and reading the reviews, I was prepared for the worst. However, the tests were exceptionally fair, if you do the HW problems and practice problems that he gives you, you should be fine on the MCQs and the free response questions. He also provided us with free response examples during the lectures before the midterms which were almost identical to the ones on the midterms. I would say that lecture is not very useful since the professor sort of skims through each slide. If you want to make use of the professor or the TAs, I would suggest going to office hours. The textbook for the class is very important and provides clarity in regions that are ignored or briefly discussed in class. I would highly recommend reading it and doing the practice problems as that will help you get a firm understanding of the material and are similar or exactly the type of questions on the exams. There was no mandatory HW for this class but as I mentioned there are suggested HW problems which you should do. The labs themselves are easy, I'm pretty sure whoever grades them does not really look at them since I and most people I know get 100s on them. The discussion sections for this class are not mandatory but I would urge you to go (honestly these are more important than the lectures IMO) since the TAs will practically give you the codes for the labs and the answers for the in class worksheets, both of which are worth a total of 20% of your grade. There are quizzes for this class, but they were online quizzes and there was no time limit so you can take your time to really get the answers. And if you did not get them right the first time, you get two tries and the answers were given after your first attempt. However, the your scores for the two will average. All in all, this was a very easy course and I often forgot I was taking it. Do not stress too much about it and just do the work. The professor for this class does not really make or break your experience, but if I were to rate his teaching, it would just be average or slightly below average.

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.