Professor Kim is a great choice for Stats 13! He is extremely clear and methodical with his expectations, and the class is structured in a manageable and straightforward manner. Professor Kim is helpful, answering questions during/after lecture and during office hours, and keeps the class engaged in lecture by asking us questions or making funny jokes.
This class consists of weekly homework, one midterm exam, one final exam, and labs (4 labs in whole quarter, so approximately due biweekly).
Grading Scheme:
Homework: 30% (Lowest HW Dropped), Labs 20%, Midterm 25%, Final 30%.
Therefore, this class is out of 105%, but the A cutoff is still a 92%, so you can think of it as 5% free extra credit. Therefore, Stats 13 with Professor Kim was quite easy to be successful in because the grading scheme was extremely generous.
Homeworks: Weekly homework assignments that would take 30-45 minutes. He provides a "practice homework" with solutions for each week's homework that is basically identical to the real homework, just with different numbers. Therefore, the homework is a very easy 30% of the grade. It is graded on accuracy, though, but with generous partial credit. Just refer to the practice homework and it's smooth.
Labs: The labs are programming in R. They are much easier than the LS 30A/B programming, and a lot of it is done in discussion section with the help of the TA. There were 4 labs this whole quarter.
Midterm: 20 question MCQ exam on a Scantron, in lecture Week 6.
Final: 25 question MCQ exam on a Scantron.
Although both exams were entirely multiple choice, they were still tricky because a lot of the questions are conceptual in nature and the wording/phrasing of the question and answer choices are extremely crucial. Additionally, every question had a "None of the Above" option, so process of elimination was unfortunately not a cop out. Regardless, the practice midterm and practice final provided by Dr. Kim beforehand are extremely representative of the problem types you will see on the real exams. In fact, a few questions were almost identical, just with slightly different numbers or answer choices. Additionally, one page handwritten cheat sheet was allowed for each exam, which was extremely helpful, because especially by the time of the final exam, there are a wide range of statistical tests and different contexts/situations in which to use them. Having it all written out on the cheat sheet greatly alleviates the stress of having to memorize the conditions/requirements/use cases of the 10+ statistical tests we learn by the end of the quarter.
Overall, this class was quite simple and intuitive. Professor Kim was clear and explained the concepts really well in lecture, so there was no scope for misunderstanding on the homeworks and exams. I would highly recommend Professor Kim for Stats 13!

Professor Kim is an AMAZING professor!!! I will literally always recommend him to anyone taking stats 13 in the future. I can tell he truly cares for his students and their ability to learn as well as their overall success in the course. He is probably one of the best STEM professors at UCLA who is genuine and has passion for his work and doesn't disregard that some students learn differently than others. He isn't at all like other STEM professors who could care less about the students success and only about teaching the class and doing research. The class exams were very fair and related to the material learned in the course. He provides resources, such as practice problems and multiple examples to ensure the success of his student's learning. He is also often funny and really approachable. I came into this class with not a very strong background in statistics and I'm telling you, I not only learned statistics, but UNDERSTOOD statistics through him. For clarity, I received an 11/20 on his midterm and went to talk to him during office hours to discuss how I could still ensure my success in his class and he was so understanding, validating and willing to work with me. literally a 10/10 professor. I can tell he's genuinely a good person outside of teaching. I normally don't care to write evaluations but I was literally so excited to write this review and talk about how good of a professor he is lol. That should tell you something!

Kim is pretty funny, but the lectures are pretty long and he doesn't have any lecture slides or anything. He basically writes on the chalkboard the entire time while talking very theoretically about stats which made it kind of hard to focus. Lecture and discussions are recorded and non mandatory which is amazing. Labs are gone through in the recorded discussions as well so pretty easy to get 100% on those... only thing was that I turned in Lab 1 in the wrong format and he has a policy of not allowing any late work or resubmissions no matter the scenario. So I got a 0 from Lab 1, however he does give 5% extra credit so it evened out. He gives practice homework and practice exams before all the homework and tests are due, which are very similar to the actual tests and homework.

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This guy is super chill and says at the start of class that you don't even have to show up (although he recommends it and I feel bad because nobody shows up, sooo SHOW UP!) and you can still end with a good grade. He only has 1 midterm and both the final and midterm are all multiple choice. If you get in all your HW you will get a 5 percent bonus to your grade which makes this class EZ AF. Just do the HW because they are extremely similar to the tests just read the questions carefully because he sometimes changes little things in the problems.

One of the best classes at UCLA. Definitely easy to get an A but I heavily relied on my note sheet for exams. I got 100% on homework and labs. For those assignments I often collaborated and checked answers with people on GroupMe. The workload was manageable. He is also so so so funny!!!

Take this class with Professor Kim if you can.
Grades were composed of: midterm, final (wasn't cumulative), homework, labs.
Lectures: Recorded, must watch or attend because he does not post his notes and there is no textbook or slides.
Homework: took like 1 hour and had example problems you could directly follow the steps for, lowest dropped
Labs: super easy coding, TA and lab manual basically walks you through them
Exams: Multiple choice and you were allowed to bring 1 cheat sheet (so helpful, highly recommend you put examples and equations on it, you learn A LOT of different tests with different steps). Because they were multiple choice, it was super important to double check your math. There is a practice exam given and it is basically the same as the exam (tests the same concepts pretty much).
Class is designed for success. Put in effort but it is hard to not do well if you're doing the basics.