Reviews of professor Maggie Cheng

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She was really bad at teaching. She expected us to know complicated proofs and we didn't even learn how to do proofs. The exams are NOTHING like the homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This course follows the Elements to Statistical Learning textbook which is hard to read. Professor Cheng goes through this book, explaining the processes and proofs that the book skips over. If you don't attend lectures then it'll be a very hard class because the concepts are hard. She does a great job making them more understandable. Friendly too

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The current iteration of Cheng's Regression course is basically "how well can you code in R" once you hit the 2nd homework. The content is almost impossible to do by hand, so knowing R is imperative to getting a good homework grade. Doesn't help that R is not taught in the class. Exams are hard but allowed 1 sheet of notes. Course had short project