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DEBRAJ DAS

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Raw average: 1.62/5 from 13 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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STAT 324
Quality 3/5Difficulty 2/5
Debraj was a fine teacher. Was not an exciting lecturer, and was extremely hard to pay attention to at times; however, if you go through the lecture notes he posts online and/or just pay attention in class you should be fine. The grading is pretty easy.
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STAT 324
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
Very unclear and confusing lectures. Debraj struggles to explain concepts in generic terms and basically just writes formulas on the board. Test and fair and very similar to the homework. Clearly a very nice guy, but not a great instructor.
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STAT 324
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
Kind of all over the place, but he has potential to be good. Office hours are helpful. Exams were easy if you do the homework before it. Make sure to know the notations, and the class will make more sense. The average for the final was a 95%. Exams have 120 points on them but are out of 100, so no curve.
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STAT 324
Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
Professor Das is by far the worst professor/teacher I have ever had. He mumbles his prewritten lecture notes. Frequently gives us wrong equations that dont line up with his online notes leading us to question which one is correct. I called him hilarious because of how wrong he is in most of his lectures to the point where it is photo worthy.
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STAT 324
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
Worst lectures I have ever attended. He mumbles and writes incoherent equations (horrible handwriting) without explaining anything. If you do not already know statistics abbreviations you will be lost. Do yourself a favor and buy the textbook, read it and do not bother with the lectures.
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Quality 1/5Difficulty 1/5
The material for the course is not very difficult, but he is so poor at teaching that hardly any of it was communicated during lecture. Would have been okay to teach myself using the fairly helpful textbook, but the exams had problems over material we'd never seen or worked before, and were 80% of the total grade. Would not recommend to anyone.
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Classes with DEBRAJ DAS

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Spring 2018STAT 324Introduction to Statistics for Science and Engineering
Fall 2017F&WECOL/STAT 571Statistical Methods for Bioscience I
Fall 2017STAT 324Introduction to Statistics for Science and Engineering

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