Skip to main content ‘18.650: Fundamentals of Statistics’
Table of contents
- Course Info
- Realistic Prerequisites
- Subject Matter
- Course Staff
- Lectures
- Problem Sets
- Exams
- Resources
- Grading
- Advice to Future Students
Course Info
Class Size | 81 |
Hours/Week | 8.3 (32 responses) |
Instructors | Promit Ghosal |
Overall Rating | 3.3/7.0 |
Realistic Prerequisites
- Most felt that the content of 18.600 or some other probability equivalent helped for taking this class.
Subject Matter
- The subject was introductory and foundational. Some found the content to be very useful for statistical models and terminology.
Course Staff
- The TAs were very helpful and responsive in this class, though most found the professor to be unengaging and disorganized.
Lectures
- Most students said that their learning was done outside of class, and few people attended lectures.
Problem Sets
- Reasonable.
- Lectures and office hours helped prepare for and clarify the psets.
Exams
- The exams were not terribly hard, though the techniques that one needed to memorize would take a bit of time.
- Practice exams and recitation problems helped study for the exams.
Resources
- Course resources were limited, and the lecture notes proved unhelpful for a number of students.
- The textbook followed in the course was useful, and was a good resource.
Grading
- Students felt that grading was fair but not transparent.
Advice to Future Students
- “Go to office hours and be prepared to do a lot of self-learning and memorization.”