Stats 10 is generally an easy class and Wu is a pretty good prof to take it with. His lectures aren't the most engaging because his voice is monotonous, but he really paid attention to the chat and always answered our questions. His lectures are on slides, which he posts on CCLE. He does clicker/poll questions during lectures for participation EC (up to 2%). Quizzes, the midterm, and the final were all multiple choice. Before both exams, he posted a study guide and gave us a practice test. During discussions, TAs basically do the lab with you and they go over homework questions. For this quarter, Wu made the final optional, dropped our lowest 2 grades from homework and quizzes, and cancelled our last lab, so he's really accommodating and willing to empathize with students.

I took AP stats in high school, so I already knew the material, so the class was really easy. I only attended lectures because of the poll questions, which gave you 2% extra credit at the end of the class. The midterm was incredibly easy, but the final was hard. However, due to the protests and blm, he made the final optional and changed the weight of the tests. The homework was easy, especially since the TAs basically did the work for us. The weekly quizzes were also easy, and he gave us ample time to do them. The only part I hated about the class was the labs, I still don't understand why they are necessary to the class, but at least the TAs walk you through them step by step.

If you want an easy class with a chill professor take this class with Wu. The info isn't exciting, but Wu teaches in a clear way and cares that his students are learning. He also wants students to succeed, so he ended up dropping multiple quizzes, homeworks, etc. The TA walks you through all the labs and gives you answers to all the homework per Wu's instructions. Take this class and if you put in just a bit of effort, you will get an A.

Professor Wu is a really nice person. He would always love to help students by answering whatever questions they ask in class. However, it doesn't mean that this class is good. It's one of the worst classes that I have ever taken in my four-year college life. You can't learn anything from the lecture unless you are a genius. He doesn't use slides and only uses blackboards to write down all the stuff. The lecture was monotonous. It feels like his words enter your ears but never go to your brain, and I am sure that lots of students feel the same way as I did. The homework is hard as well. It requires you to write everything in R Markdown, including mathematical proofs, which is insanely hard if you are not a master of LaTeX. Exams are all multiple choice with a mix of conceptual and computational problems

As someone who took AP Stats before this course, it was pretty easy all things considered. There is very little computation in this class and the course is very much regarding the theoretical/practical side of statistics rather than the formulas. We never even used a z-table in this course. All in all, it's definitely not a terrible class if you have prior knowledge.

I'd also like to interject that I took this course as a GE because I'm not a life science major, so I didn't really have as much reason to get too invested in my grade here, but regardless I did give it the best effort I did and scored well on the tests.

The labs and homework are fairly manageable. I managed to finish them in about an hour or two each, but they still did a good job of teaching the basics of R and statistics.

All in all a good course. As for the professor, he is an acceptable enough lecturer given the trying times (this is during the COVID quarantine), but he did a good job of clarifying things in class and gave engaging examples of what he was teaching. Whenever there was downtime during lecture, he would converse with us and just ask us how we're doing and what our student lives are like. He really seems like a nice and personable guy. Also, he was very accommodating when I ran into tech problems during the course trying to take the exams. Great professor.

Also, like anyone who has taken a statistics class on UCLA and left a review on BruinWalk, I am obligated to bash the TA Jake here. He actively disincentivized me from going to discussions because every time I did I felt like I was being belittled. The syllabus encouraged us to work together on homework so long as we weren't just pasting answers without explanation and we would often share solutions after the homework was due via GroupMe. (There was an official Discord server for the class, but sometimes we just wanted to talk as students and help each other through that rather than using the Discord which often felt more formal.) This happened after I left the group chat, but he apparently joined the group chat just to tell us he was "appalled by the number of academic integrity violations." I didn't follow the GroupMe that actively, but unless there was a major breach during the final, I don't recall anything of the sort. Anyway, https://tinyurl.com/y589266c if you're curious about that

Professor Wu and the TA struggled a little with the online format, but that was to be expected for professors and students alike. Unlike some other unsympathetic professors, though, Professor Wu was obviously doing his best to create a good learning environment and be caring for his students.

Nonetheless, there were some inherent issues with his implementation of the course. For one, the Stats departments obsession with non-collaboration on anything was incredibly annoying. Not being able to work on homework together was tough and isolating. The quizzes were hard and it was unclear as to what topics they were covering. The tests had extremely tough wording at times, and the homeworks were very stressful at points. Most annoyingly was the specificity of the homeworks. Having to name files a certain way or making sure the files were knittable (which an easy solution was never explicity given to this problem) or automatically have 50% of the grade taken off was harsh to say the least.

The use of campuswire helped a lot. The TA Oonyambu was very responsive, albeit a little short with answers sometimes (see also: the way Jake answers questions but a little less harsh). Overall, I would take this class again in its second, COVID-tested iteration, which I think would have a lot less kinks than my session had.

Over the global pandemic this professor was not leniant at all. We all had to use a respondus lockdown browser AND a zoom during our midterm. We were told to turn down the zoom but they were sharing corrections to the test questions that many people didnt see. Furthermore the practice tests he gives us were so easy that everyone got 100 but bombed the midterm. The professor and the TAs especially were not flexible considering the stressfull situation of COVID and online classes. There is no option for makeup work and I was overall very dissatisfied with the course and the professor.

I don't know if it was the professor's idea or the TAs but the homework and labs are graded very strictly on accuracy. There are a lot of analysis and explanation questions, if you get the smallest concept wrong, you automatically get points deducted. Homework and lab are 40% of the total grade so that takes a lot of points of the total, making it impossible to get a fair grade. The class is not flexible at all and they are not considerate about the current situation of COVID. I don't know how the class normally is in-person but if you plan on taking this course when online, I highly recommend you take it with a different professor. The content itself is very easy and my friends who are taking stats 13 with another professor are not having the same problem as I had.

Professor Wu is an understanding, nice professor. However, his lectures are really just not stimulating whatsoever. I found them to quite boring and poorly paced. We ended up having to rush through the last chapter leaving many students (including myself) confused.
The homework can take some time, but I found it to be fairly straightforward. The quizzes can sometimes have unclear wording, but they weren't difficult.
The assigned labs tend to stray from the lecture materials, but they're walked through by TAs so they're not that tough to complete.
I found the exams to be quite difficult compared to the lecture example problems and the HW questions. The midterm wasn't bad, but I found the final to be pretty tough. Luckily though, he's quite lenient on grading and applies some extra credit/curves while dropping the lowest HW + quiz grades.

All in all, Stats 10 with Wu is a class where success is certainly achievable, although the lectures and section material are mind-numbing and far from engaging.

Professor Wu explains the content really well. Midterm and Final are all MC questions. Labs and hws are easy.