STAT 3120

My advisor in the statistics department said it was one of the hardest undergraduate course because of how theoretical it is. This makes it really hard to teach. Taylor was not the world's most skilled lecturer, but he was not the worst I have ever had and he was pretty attractive;). Your grade comes from 3-4 extremely challenging homework sets, 2 midterms, and a final. The midterms and final were very hard (and very proof heavy-I don't think there was a single actual number on our final), but he curved them. Overall, I would not recommend this class to anyone other than stats majors, but if you are a stats major who is required to take it, it will suck no matter who you are with. I didn't mind Taylor that much until the asshole didn't round my 82.88 up so I got a B- instead of a B.

One of the worst classes I have been unfortunate enough to take at this University. Imagine a lecture purely taught on slides, by a PhD candidate who cares very little for your comprehension, all in a class that should easily require at least MATH 3100 as its prerequisite but misleadingly does not. Find a different teacher and this class may be ok. Otherwise, only take this class if you absolutely must.

I don't know how much longer Taylor will be teaching the course, but I enjoyed taking it with him and would advise any Stat or Math majors to take it with him as well. He's a very casual lecturer and is approachable during office hours or after class. Study his slides and the homework problems he writes, and you should be fine on the tests - be warned that all the questions he asks on tests are more conceptual or proof based than the problems in the book.

DO NOT take this class with Brown. Awful. Arrogant. Terrible at explaining. Mumbles. Points to the powerpoint slide, says, "read it", then moves on. How is he allowed to teach this course again and again?????

To whomever said taylor was cute - have you seen his hair? Or his trucker hat? But to be fair his personality is pretty cute. He laughs at all of his own mathematical jokes even when the rest of the class doesn't understand them.

In all honesty, the class is conceptually difficult to understand in the first place and he does his best to explain it to people who only take it because it's required for their major. It's not going to be an easy class but he curves considerably because he does this weird 0-50-100% on each question (to not argue about partial credit which is fair). I don't think he's teaching it next semester but thought I'd share my two cents.

He teaches like you already master material which is horrible. I think he feel that because he curves the exams a lot that he doesn't have to teach the material. To be honest all I did was memorized the example on his slides and previous exam and did well. Did not learn anything he sucks.

I think Taylor gets way too much hate for this course. He's graduating this semester so he probably won't be teaching the course again, but I really enjoyed learning more about the theoretical underpinnings of STAT 2120 and STAT 3220. You actually get to understand where certain distributions and formulas are derived from. The class this semester was also probably easier than past semesters, because HW was worth 50% of your grade, and he curves exams pretty generously. Taylor is a very intelligent guy and is willing to sit down with you to go through any problems that you struggle with.

I found Professor Brown to be a fair and effective instructor. There was homework due every other week, which was challenging but doable. The practice exams were very representative of what the actual exam would be, and each of the exams were curved. My only complaint with the course was that it took a long time for him to grade exams (5 weeks for the second one). All in all, I would highly recommend taking this class with Professor Brown if you can.