Ji Meng Loh

This course is fairly difficult and Professor Loh does nothing to make it easier. While it is not his fault that the lectures are boring (how could a stats lecture not be?), he is not a particularly good lecturer. His midterm is doable, as is the final. The weekly problem sets, however, were extremely time-consuming and long. What makes matters worse is that Loh's textbook is quite possibly, the least helpful textbook ever written. If you take this course, I doubt you will get lower than a B. However, I also doubt you will get much higher. Overall, I disliked this class and found Professor Loh to be a poor (albeit competent) professor.

15%: 11 Homework sets that take less than 2 hours each. He drops the lowest homework grade. 35%: Midterm. Very easy as long as you understand the basic concepts. You get one double-sided cheat sheet. 50%: Final. Harder than the midterm (with a curveball or two) but you still will do fine if you understand the basic concepts. You get two double-sided cheat sheets.

Weekly problem sets which are long and hard, midterm and final (both challenging but doable, the cheat sheet is essential). He also threatens pop quizzes but we only had one.

Not sure why everyone's bitching about this class. Loh's good at explaining concepts in class and uses a lot of examples to demonstrate them, so you can figure out what's going on just by copying stuff off the board. He really goes overkill with this, to the point that half the class can become boring repetitive examples (but at least you're sure to learn the concepts, if you can stay awake). The first half of the semester is just basic probability and basic statistical concepts and you only really need to go to every other class, if that. It gets a little harder for the second half of the semester and I'd recommend actually going to class at that point- he's great at explaining stuff you don't already know. He also gives a good list of midterm and final review material so you get familiar with what you have to know (he'll also tell you in lecture whether something will be tested). In order to do well in this class, you just have to do the homework yourself- if you do the homework, then you'll know all the concepts for the tests.

Ji Meng Loh does explain the concepts in this class fairly well but expect to spend a lot of time outside of class going through concepts he did not. This way be an introductory course but expect to spend a long time trying to figure out concepts and doing his long and tedious problem sets. I don't agree that this is an easy A. He tries to keep the number of A's he gives out to around 25 percent so I gather he curves to b-/b. Well, the quote of the semester would be what he said just before the final. 'If you have done your work consistently throughout the semester, you SHOULD not get anything LESS THAN a C-' - Ji Meng Loh

Prof Loh expects his students to put in a good deal of work. But he said this straight out on the first day. This is not an easy class, but Loh said he was trying to prepare us for Econometrics. The good news is, he is a decent teacher. He is organized, covers the material well and is very accessable. The good news is, if you are willing to put in the work--this class is an easy A. Tests are hard but the scale is good. Overall, Loh is a no BS decent guy. Good class.

Horrible teacher, "nice" man (not overly nice as some reviewers here would have you think). Not too willing to help his students. He chose horrible TAs. The solutions he gave to the sample final did not show how he arrived at those answers. 1211 with him is really bad. HUGE AMOUNT OF WORK ASSIGNED.

A HUGE AMOUNT. Weekly p-sets, midterm, final. He acts as though this is the only class you're taking, even though it's 1000 level.

There are no words sufficient to express the horror of W1211 with Ji Meng Loh, but I'll try: the homeworks take a long time, but when you get to looking at them for the tests, you feel that they're basically pretty doable. He gives a sample midterm and final that seem pretty doable as well- BUT, his tests throw a large amount of questions at you completely out of left field. He'll ask stuff he never went over. I'm not exaggerating, and please believe me for your own sake, this was the worst class I have ever taken in my life. He can't explain concepts in class. he's ok in office hours (nowhere near as great or nice as some people here are making him out to be).