explains well and is very nice during lecture. he will answer any question asked in lecture and will never make u feel dumb and instead say "thats a great question" even if he had just covered the answer in detail. with that being said his midterm was out of very little points. i scored one point below average o the mc and one point below average on the show your work and placed me at a swooping 10% below average (i scored around a C- and average was a B-) which i was very very very bitter about. However i did much better on my final (about 4 or 5 higher than average). This class is ALOT of work...weekly labs, quizes, and articles. however these helped my grade a lot. he has extra credit as well to bump ur grade by 2% which i was thankful for. i ended up getting a B+ in the class due to my midterm grade.

at the beginning he says the grade u get is the amount of work u put into the class and this is very true. i found his tests to be very fair yet challenging. his tests truly measure understanding and he really respects the students' intellect. overall i recommend him.

The class is fine- average workload and grading. Your grade depends on attendance, weekly online quizzes, weekly labs, occasional article assignments, two midterms, and the final. He is pretty frustrating as a professor, though, because he'll say things that conflict with the powerpoints or just contradictory things in general. He goes in an order that's confusing and just jumps around. He'd go over certain concepts too briefly which would leave a lot of people confused. The class is definitely doable but I don't think he taught well at all.

This class is meh. The labs are painfully boring though easy. The professor, while occasionally funny, is prone to launching into tangents. I also did not feel that the class truly prepared me for the midterm and final and I had to do weekly tutoring sessions to pass. If you go to his office hours though he is super helpful and will work through problems with you. I also have to say that I missed the 1st midterm and he averaged the score of my second midterm and final exam and gave that to me as my first midterm score, which I really appreciated. Overall you will definitely get the most benefit from this class if you make time to go to office hours and make sure to finish all your labs in lab section instead of putting them off til the last minute.

Decent class, the professor himself was very nice. My main problems were taking it simultaneously with some difficult classes, and forgetting about it until the midterm, in which I was wrecked, and spent the rest of the quarter trying to recover. In general, a meh class with a nice teacher. Textbook was definitely one of the jankiest ones I've ever seen, I practically never used it, just found resources elsewhere which made a lot more sense. Make sure to do the labs completely (some of them they check thoroughly, some not so much) and to go really slow on the quizzes (they are practically free points if you are careful with them).

As you can see from the class distribution, Professor Almohalwas's class is doable; however, this does not mean he doesn't teach. He is genuinly concerned about his students and he actually teaches class materials that are useful. His additional lecture materials he posts are very useful and interesting as well.

He seems confusing at first because his teaching style is a little different. The most important thing that you can do is know everything in the notes he provides and write down all the examples he does in class. To succeed I went to many office hours and asked him to redo profs and all the examples I wasn't able to follow in class. He is extremely patient in office hours and has many of them- so take advantage! Other than that, his tests are fair and directly mirror the in class material.

i hate that i have to write this because almohalwas is such a nice guy and is very passionate about what he teaches, but unfortunately his class was genuinely one of the worst stats classes i have taken at this school.

lecture attendance is mandatory and they are not recorded, but they are a complete waste of time. there is ZERO structure whatsoever, he just rambles on about a singular, surface-level concept for the entirety of class by making a hundred different analogies. i never actually know what i learned from lecture because they are so incredibly disorganized.

homework is easy and TAs give out all the answers during discussion, but it is not helpful in the slightest when preparing for exams. homework is all coding and exams are all calculations by hand + interpretations.

exams are so frustrating to study for because there are basically no study materials provided besides one practice test that doesn't even come with an answer key. it's only manageable because there isn't a lot of content, but it's such a pain since the curriculum is pretty much a mystery (if it even exists?) so it's nearly impossible to figure out what exactly you need to know.

what i hate is that there is ZERO organization and i mean zero. you never know what you're learning because lectures suck, there is no concrete list/order of topics anywhere, he does not post any consistent slides to follow along with, the textbook is dense and outdated and has too much unnecessary detail, and everything posted on bruinlearn is just random pages of uncommented R code with little to no context. also, grading policies are vague and deadlines get changed whenever he feels like it.

if you actually want to learn something, i would take this class with literally any other prof.

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.

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.