A few days ago, I was in a horrific car crash. At some point, the paramedics told me that my heart stopped beating, and I was considered medically dead for 2 minutes. At some point in my period of unconsciousness, however, something incredible happened. After being in a state of utter and complete blackness for what seemed like an eternity, I suddenly woke up in a bright field with a long staircase in front of me. I walked up the staircase, feeling a pleasant warmth from the radiating sun surround me as I did so. Eventually, I reached giant golden gates at the top of the staircase. That's when the memory of the car crash hit me like a ton of bricks, and I suddenly realized that I had died and I was now at the gates of heaven. However, I wasn't frightened. There was something calming about this place. After waiting a few minutes, I saw a figure slowly walking towards me and the gates. He eventually reached the gates, and without even touching them, he summoned them to open. Something deep inside told me that this figure opening the doors and about to confront me was God. When the gates opened, he stepped forth, and that's when I saw his face. Standing in front of me, in all his godly grandiosity, was Akram Almohalwas. I was frozen with awe. He handed me a chi square table, and told me that the meaning of life can be determined alone from taking his Stats 13 class. At this moment I was certain: Almohalwas himself was God. I reached to touch his beautiful face, but that's when I woke up in the hospital. I will never forget this experience, and my life will never be the same afterwards.

He talked proudly about getting students expelled the very first day of class and set a bad taste in my mouth for the rest of the quarter. He rambles throughout the lecture and sparsely gets to the point. There was not nearly enough time for either midterm because it had to be taken during class with our cameras on (only 50 minutes). He is very inflexible and said, "you don't deserve special treatment" when talking about extensions. The labs are very tedious and quite literally impossible to do without the code provided to us by the TA's (often not given by the professor). For the beginning of the quarter, most of the TA's were unsure of what he wanted regarding the labs and my TA dropped the class the first week. Good luck besties!

Do not take this class with this professor. This is the most unorganized class I have ever taken at UCLA. He is a very poor lecturer on Zoom; he goes off on random tangents and then tries to rush through hundreds of pre-made slides packed with information. I stopped watching his lectures after the first three weeks of learning nothing and instead tried using the online book to keep up.
The exams themselves aren't supposed to be hard, especially if you've taken AP statistics before, but his poor teaching combined with lack of communication with his TAs make them a lot more stressful than they need to be. Not only that, but you're expected to complete both midterms in 50 minutes, way less time than what is needed to properly complete each long short answer and mcq question. You're also expected to use R code or simulate things during the exam before being able to complete the short answer. Not to mention, there wasn't any system for partial credit--it was variable from TA to TA. I had both my midterms regraded and received 5+ points more each time because of an error in grading or not adding partial credit. We also never got scores for our final exam and were not able to review any parts of it--just a final grade.

The labs usually consisted of the TA telling us what to write since none of us actually understood how to do write the required code.

Basically, don't take this class with this professor. You'll be better of waiting or taking another math class.

DO NOT TAKE STATS 13 WITH ALMOHALWAS. You've been warned.

After reading the reviews here I was worried about taking this class, but it was much better than I expected. This professor was honestly one of the nicest and most approachable professors I’ve had. His lectures can be confusing due to the structure and length of his slides, but he always has review sessions before every exam where he pretty much goes over exactly what’s going to be on the exam, and he is great at answering questions. The textbook is also helpful at explaining concepts that the professor might not have explained well, so I recommend reading it. Exams are reasonable and much easier than I expected (the multiple choice section can be confusing, though, so be mindful of this). Also, the overall workload is light.

I had no prior knowledge of statistics whatsoever and I was able to do well in the class. Just put in some effort outside of class into making sure you understand the material well, and you should be fine.

worst class i've taken at ucla. hated stats. did NOT like the professor at all, everything about the class made me wanna rip my hair out. why are his powerpoints 100+ slides long? why does nothing he say make sense? why is so disorganized? genuinely upsetting, should be a relatively okay class content-wise but the prof made me wanna **** ** ****.

If you've taken AP Statistics before then this is a breeze. We only covered one prop, one mean, two prop, two mean, chi-square, and linear regression in this class which made things a lot simpler than AP Stat. The labs do involve R which was pretty daunting to me as someone who's never coded before, but we basically just copied the code from the TA during lab. Therefore, the labs were very easy as long as you type fast enough to keep up with the TA's code in the lab section. The mean for the Winter 2023 final was 86% after the professor curved it, which is relatively high compared to other classes. The professor is a little hard to understand and he does go on tangents often, but the content is fairly easy so that wasn't a problem

Almohalwas is a horrible professor. The class and material itself is easy and I did not try very hard. But he is a terrible lecturer and often makes students even more confused by his explanation after someone asks a question. If you can, take this class with someone else who will actually teach you statistics.

Professor Almohalwas is such a great guy, very nice, and willing to help students succeed. I do agree with other reviews that the class was a bit disorganized and his lectures didn't have much structure. Labs are useless, they don't help you learn since most students just tried submitting the code rather than do it. The discussion section is useful and you should go since it is good practice. One thing about professor Almohalwas is that he really knows how to lecture/explain things so you can understand, but all the reviews say otherwise cuz his lectures got boring sometimes and were disorganized at times, so you have to be alert the whole time. Also, he didn't record his lectures so you have to be even more alert. The way to succeed in this class is to take active lecture notes(try your best not to sleep for this part of the day) as he speaks then go back to the slides later and review anything you missed(it sounds like a lot but trust me, this helped a lot for retaining information), do the discussion activities and make sure you review the answers, review the quizzes, go to his office hours(he clears so much confusion about topics you are confused about), and DO THE PRACTICE PROBLEMS HE GIVES FOR EACH CHAPTER CUZ HE PULLS MANY OF THESE QUESTIONS FOR MIDTERMS AND FINALS(this was something not many people did and I did which gave me the edge over many students). You must start the practice problems a week and a half before the midterm since it is a lot so you have time to finish and review it. The reason many people hate this class was cuz there wasn't enough practice that they did, and the chapter book problems he provides are helpful in studying. Most answers are in the pdf but you can just search them up too. Overall, he gets hate when he doesn't deserve it and should have some improvements in the class, but you definitely need to try in this class to get an A.

Overall just bad. His lectures are boring, unengaging, and he rambles so much you don't know what he even talks about. His lecture style is slides and just talks about it. You're never sure when to write notes because his lectures are just all slides with words about experiments. I went to class every single time and honestly worst decision of my life.

Discussions are alright definitely go to those. They give you the answers to lab which are dumb because you don't learn anything from them because you're just worried about getting the code to submit the lab. Which you will spend a ridiculous amount of time doing. You do learn more from TAs than the professor like every single class at UCLA.

Midterm and Final are definitely fair if you taught yourself the material