Reviews of professor Jamshid Namdari

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great experience! Every lecture makes complete sense and he makes sure to keep repeating and clarifying new ideas with simple examples. I thought the content was very useful and logical. But, he does not curve and gives weekly quizzes so you will have to be consistent with the content throughout the quarter.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Great professor.  Namdari is very knowledgeable in statistics and it shows.  Homework graded on completeness rather than correctness.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He drops the lowest homework and midterm. Open book and note Canvas midterms(12 multiple choice) and final(25 multiple choice). He's fast in email even in the evening. Also use OH to ask homework question!!!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's a nice guy and responsive to emails, but his lectures are essentially just him writing formulas on the board with few to no examples and no explanation of the formulas in a larger context. Don't take unless absolutely necessary.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took AP Stats in high school and this class was the same material, except he managed to make everything I had already learned way more difficult for no reason. Makes you do all the calculations by hand, which is downright stupid for this day and age (there's a magical thing called a calculator...). Trust the negative reviews. (Spring 2020)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Best professor ever. The course is clear with lots of examples and covering the basics. Test and homework based on the material that's been already covered during the lecture or discussion.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Be ready to work on projects a week before your final. Imagine next week is your final week. You got an assignment on Monday and it is due Saturday night?????? Very heavy theories and math during lectures in a class that suppose to be practical. Would not recommend!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Definitely have to work to do well in this class, but overall fine. Some content was confusingly taught but if you put in the work and practice, you'll eventually understand. Tests and quizzes weigh a LOT so if you miss one question, your grade is affected significantly. Lots of students struggled. Straight forward organization of the class, though

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor's class is very straightforward. You take notes on his lecture handouts, you have weekly homework assignments, and you have 3 midterms and 1 final (all online and open note). Lectures are recorded + he writes really fast so I'd recommend trying to comprehend what's going on in class THEN catching up with the notes at home.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Overall not bad, no homeworks but weekly quizzes, tests were similar to weekly quizzes so if you understood the weekly quizzes, you should be set.