STAT 240Probability (Advanced Level)

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• STAT 240 is both the best and worst course I've ever taken. Peijun Sang's teaching is not bad, but he often goes off on tangents and will get rage baited by certain students during every class. His teaching is a little disorganized and sometimes not clear, but his lectures are CERTAINLY engaging. Exams are 100% of your grade, and the difficulty will fluctuate between pretty easy to nearly un-passable, but you will get saved by the curve. Overall, recommend taking this course if you have a gambling addiction and a high tolerance for self-punishment

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• It covers the content of stat 230, 330, and 333 with proofs. Please regard it as stat 240 enriched!
  This course covers "multivariable calculus", "convex", "Lebesgue Integral"(no tested), "Entropy"(not tested), "graph theory"(just a little in assignment), "generating function" (one question in assignment), linear algebra (about norm, eigenvalue), and so on!
  Is it cool? Absolutely!!! Professor said it is a course designed for MIT students! Do not fear your grade will be affected by it, just take it, it is a cool course, if you have any problem, just go to office hour, professor will help you!
  Exams are reasonable, difficult but most problems appear in class (though I did not do it well…

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• All the other reviewers got ragebaited too hard in class. He is actually not bad if you listen properly and ask the right questions. This is my favourite class this term.

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• Now that I have dropped this course, I feel ready to comment my review. Firstly, this course is very prof-dependent: my friends who have previously taken this course have said it was very formulaic. However, Jagannath's offering runs almost like an analysis/measure theory course. Secondly, the Fall 2022 offering is HARD, REALLY HARD, like "you will go from scoring high 90s in advanced courses to getting 60s on the midterm" hard, so you need to be ready for it. Don't be afraid to drop to STAT230 if you feel your mental health taking a nosedive, regardless of what your peers or sunk-cost fallacy tell you. But if you stick it out, you might learn some cool things :)

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• Fall 2022 offering was very difficult, even for an advanced course. The biggest issues with the course were: 1) New concepts were often introduced without motivation or intuition, and we were just expected to accept and understand them. 2) Despite the prerequisites, concepts were pulled in from MATH 136, 237, and 239, as well as tools like Fourier transforms, difference equations, Stirling's approximation, and others. The use of these was also often not motivated or explained well.
  I'm walking out of this course with a disliking of STAT (as this was my first introduction to it), the ability to theoretically manipulate a whole bunch of statistical tools, and no knowledge of practical…

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