STAT 2120

Gretchen is not a good lecturer. She speeds through her power points and explains everything using Microsoft Excel (which is obviously no help for the midterms). Be prepared to teach yourself most of the material. The labs and homework (both of which are easy to get 100%) are 30% of the final grade, which is huge because she does not curve the midterms. If this class is mandatory for your prerequisites, Gretchen would be easier than Spitzner, as long as you take the time to teach yourself the material or get a good tutor.

Even though she's better than Spitzner, her tests are impossible. I got a tutor after the first midterm and felt extremely prepared before the second midterm and then ended up having no idea how to do half of the problems. Definitely find a group to do the homework with.

You have to teach yourself everything but it's not that hard.

Martinet is a really nice and reasonable professor. You can tell she really cares about your progress. Lectures are sometimes hard to follow, but she is very helpful during office hours. Tests are not that bad if you study hard. Definitely don't take this class unless you have to, but Martinet makes it manageable.

Martinet seems like a really cool person, and she's definitely really smart, but she's not the best teacher I've ever had. She pretty much just reads from the slides, but she does try to do examples in excel and on paper. Labs are kind of stupid, and my TA usually would make an excel worksheet with all the formulas already in there that she'd put on collab, so it only took about 10 minutes every time. Martinet tries to make the classes interesting and does a lot of examples with things like number of beers to BAC, but its kind of a boring class. However she really tries to help out, and lets you attend lectures other than the one you're registered for and when she knew that there was a busy week for most people, she cancelled that weeks homework. All in all not the best teacher but could definitely be a lot worse.

Martinet's really nice, but in lecture, she'll do some examples that are helpful but otherwise, pretty much just reads off of the slides. Overall, the lectures aren't very informative, but her office hours are generally helpful- just make sure you have your own specific questions to bring to the table.

Very frustrating class. Martinet is a nice teacher and is pretty helpful but it is very difficult to do well in the class. The structure of the class and exams make it challenging to pull off a good grade. Somehow she does not curve the exams, even though the class average for each of the exams has been in the 70s. It feels like some of the questions on the exams are trick questions and worded strangely. I left the first exam thinking I did well and ended up getting a 71.

Professor Martinet is not a good lecturer. She reads off the slides and does most of her examples on Excel, which is useless since on the test we use calculators. For the two midterms we had, the mean was in the 70s. The textbook is also very difficult to understand and digest while the labs are irrelevant. It's not horribly difficult, but it's definitely not a class I would like to take again.

Really difficult class, exams are especially hard. Teacher shows us how to do things on excel, but we can only use our calculators on the exams, they don't show you how to use calculator (have to look up online). Labs and Hw aren't too bad, but study a lot for the exams. Don't take unless you need it as a comm pre-req or are really into statistics, and if you take it as a comm pre-req I recommend taking it in the spring of your second year.

Really don't think the content in this class is that tough, but it's just taught so poorly. Not completely her fault because its tough to teach math on lecture slides. She just reads the slides and does some excel examples, which won't help on the test because we don't have excel for tests. Tests aren't easy because they try and trip you up with small details, which make you need to read everything carefully. Also, tests are multiple choice, so no partial credit, which can be a killer if you make small mistakes, you will lose all the points. Don't take unless you really love Stat or a prereq.