# YONG CAI — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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### built at

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### term

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### departments

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## instructor

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### source

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### name

YONG CAI

### first observed at

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### last observed at

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### ratings

#### review count

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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#### quality count

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#### difficulty count

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#### courses

##### course 43ec9cdd7f32ec7681ab5d71

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#### graded

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#### sections

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### current

false

### courses

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### revision

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### instructor url

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## history

| term | course\_uid                      | course\_id | title                                  |
| ---- | -------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------- |
| 1264 | course\_9fae615fe1db13e19e61a961 | ECON 704   | ECONOMETRICS I                         |
| 1264 | course\_78b5772073262a6a36ea493d | ECON 705   | ECONOMETRICS II                        |
| 1264 | course\_214436c4cc146fd6e13ced8b | ECON 914   | WORKSHOP IN ECONOMETRICS               |
| 1262 | course\_9fae615fe1db13e19e61a961 | ECON 704   | ECONOMETRICS I                         |
| 1262 | course\_43ec9cdd7f32ec7681ab5d71 | ECON 709   | ECONOMIC STATISTICS AND ECONOMETRICS I |
| 1254 | course\_9fae615fe1db13e19e61a961 | ECON 704   | ECONOMETRICS I                         |
| 1254 | course\_78b5772073262a6a36ea493d | ECON 705   | ECONOMETRICS II                        |
| 1254 | course\_214436c4cc146fd6e13ced8b | ECON 914   | WORKSHOP IN ECONOMETRICS               |
| 1252 | course\_9fae615fe1db13e19e61a961 | ECON 704   | ECONOMETRICS I                         |
| 1252 | course\_43ec9cdd7f32ec7681ab5d71 | ECON 709   | ECONOMIC STATISTICS AND ECONOMETRICS I |

## timeline

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| ---- | ------- |
| 1252 | 2       |
| 1254 | 3       |
| 1262 | 2       |
| 1264 | 3       |

## term

1272

## courses

None recorded.

## reviews

### items

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    "comment": "Very good! You can tell he's new; there were myriad typos in his lecture notes, and the homework problems were very easy.\n\nBut those lecture notes were great nonetheless! Thorough, easy to follow, with numerous helpful example problems. Feel like I learned a lot from him.",
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### page

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### courses

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| course\_43ec9cdd7f32ec7681ab5d71 | ECON 709   |

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