Dr. Tingley is a great professor. He dealt well with the transition to online learning and regularly expressed his concern for the wellbeing and learning of the students throughout the quarter. He showed us specific ways the thinking and skills we learn in the course can be applied to real issues we are currently experiencing in the world. He is funny, engaging, and loves to talk about birds.

This course is much more useful than anything you would learn in a classic statistics course (i.e. Stats 13 or 10) and I have already been applying the skills I have learned in the course to my research. The homework can be difficult, but it is graded fairly and is reasonable to do if you complete the associated lab and check out the lab solutions.

All in all, I highly recommend LS 40, especially if you can take it with Tingley.

There are some fundamental concepts that are difficult to grasp which (in my opinion) is what makes this class hard. Prof Tingley is very patient when it comes to making sure this is clear. I wasn't doing well in the class because of this as well as the change to online formatting as well as the social climate in our nation during this time. Prof. Tingley was very understanding and was making accommodations even before the LS Core came out with guidelines for how to handle finals during this time. I think that was an important show of character and something huge to take into consideration when choosing a professor, and Tingley passes the test with flying colors.

This class was much easier than LS30a and LS30b. The content was pretty light, the homework was very reasonable and discussion sections were very helpful for understanding the concepts. Lectures were also pretty engaging.

His question answering skills were lacking, and he straight up gave false information about the tests. Not a huge fan cuz the class seemed easy but then the tests were not what he told us.

I can confidently say, Dr. Tingley is the best professor I have ever had throughout my UCLA career. If presented with Stats 13 or LS40, TAKE LS40. I BEG YOU. You'll deffo thank me later.
No weekly readings because everything you need to know will be presented in lectures. Just a weekly quiz.
Besides, you'll learn this class so frickin well that EE BIOL C172 (an upper div class) is literally the exact same as this class. So if you do well here, deffo consider taking the c172 advanced stats (even tho it says advanced, dont let it fool you because it's the same thing as ls40 hehe so dont tell anyone I said this).
If research is something you'll be doing in life, ls40 with tingley is SO highly recommended you have no idea.
ok enough tingley praise for now lols until we meet again!!!!!

Professor Tingley has been one of my favorite professors at UCLA and he has truly made me change my whole perspective on statistics. This is one of the few life science classes where you can actually see the application of what you are learning to the scientific field, and more specifically the medical field. The professor was very engaging, very clear, and straightforward. For anyone who has struggled with statistics and mathematical concepts, this class is perfect with Professor Tingley. I took it along with LS30B and I felt very supported without any stress. Also, the coding is a huge aspect but you are told what you are required of and there is a lot of guidance along the way!! Midterm and Final were very fair and straightforward. Highly recommend this class and specifically this professor!!