Learner Reviews & Feedback for Modeling Risk and Realities by University of Pennsylvania

I do not recommend this course or the specialization. I will cite below sentences from the course and you can be the judge yourself.

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if we plug in the expected values … we get fifty thousand times ninety, plus nine hundred thousand times ten, plus one hundred thousand times six, plus one hundred fifty thousand times two …….

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The professor was actually reading this calculation:

500,000*90 + 900,000*10 + 100,000*6 + 150,000*2

I sat through 3 courses to realize that I should have dropped it in course 1 week 1.

The course was basic and doesn't prepare anyone with an industrial perspective. The content is not enough explanatory on why are we calculating certain numbers. Week 3 was totally unclear topic. Also, more realistic examples would have made the course better.

Although great content, I found that the week three has been more theoretical with not enough detail. I still manage some key concepts, but I would have love to understand more how to use in practice the theory.

Instructors were not very descriptive. Worst course within the specialization. Really disappointing because the topics covered would've been super useful if I completely understood them.

Basically i resume of economics concepts that can be taken for granted as a prerequisite of the course

Could be more content, and quizzes are really stupid - it's just plugging in numbers!!!

Too basic for the subject matter. Didn't learn anything I didn't already know.

Week 3 was very vague and unhelpful in completing relevant quiz

Not very helpful for stat major students

very poor qual

Good introduction course, however in the overall description is not specified that is a basic course.

The distributions were not well explained, it could have been handled in a much better way!

very watered down