The unit was pretty okay! Don't get me wrong the content was hellish but thats just statistics. If you plan to do this it is vital that YOU DO IT THE SAME YEAR YOU DO STATISTICS 1. You need to have knowledge and memory of stats 1 to grasp this content, though they do provide a refresher in lecture 1. The convenor (Lili) is quite responsive to students and her and her team truly convey attitudes of teachers who want their students to succeed. The assessment tasks are a-bit difficult but graded fairly and even a-bit leniently. Unlike stats 1 the practicals aren’t a graded requirement but STILL GO. And please do not miss a single lecture. If there’s any unit which you need to be on schedule for it’s this one. I made that mistake and it was horrible. Tip: There are older stats videos on youtube posted by MQ. They’re short and sporadic so don’t expect them to replace lectures but if you need another perspective on a subject or a refresher then they’re a great resource. The convenor is also quite lenient with the cheat cheet and we were allowed to work with other people on them. As long as you followed the maximum amount of pages you could literally put anything you wanted. BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT: don’t. rely. on. it. My cheat cheet was packed to the hell with content and during the exam I barely used it. I’m sorry to say that no cheat cheat you make will replace the intrinsic knowledge and application. Now the downsides (aside from the hellish content) are the readings. Many lectures require 1 chapter from 2-3 books which can be quite heavy. That being said, some of the readings use layman's terms and real life examples so they are worth it. Theres also this book called statistics for people who think they hate statistics. If you’re able to buy the digital format then I implore you to because it will seriously help you understand everything (stats is a hard subject, you would benefit from taking as many avenues possible to learning the content). Additionally, the exam (and practice quizzes) majorly consist of trick questions. If you have adhd like me and aren’t great at paying attention to the minute details then you’ll need to put in extra effort. Highly encourage you to figure out every possible trick they could use or the niche information that you could easily misinterpret or misunderstand.

Actually not as bad as I was dreading as someone who's horrible at math! The unit content was organized well and the concepts explained nicely. However, the content is still pretty tough and requires you to actually watch all the lectures and understand them properly. Forever grateful for being allowed the cheat sheet :,)

Statistics is terrifying to me, but I ended up doing pretty well for this unit. Although the 3 hours of lectures each week was super brutal for my non-maths brain, my saving grace was how well Alissa is at explaining abstract statistical concepts in the first half of the semester. I've never learnt anything stats-related easier than when she was doing the lectures! She's super passionate about it all and explains it so, so clearly. Unfortunately, the second half of the semester was more difficult to keep up with because they switched lecturers, and while the second lecturer was lovely and obviously knew her stuff, the formulas were explained as-is without really linking back to the previous concepts we had learned. Thank god this was an open-book final exam or I would have been screwed for any topics after week 7.

I love Alissa and the content for the first half of the semester was manageable. However, Lilly (2nd half) was hard to understand and focused heavily on hand calculations without really explaining what the relevance of the calculation was in relation to the bigger picture. My understanding of the content for the first half of the semester felt thorough, however, my understanding of content for the second half felt very patchy and incomplete. Additionally, it’s AT LEAST 3 hours of lecture content each week which becomes difficult to sit through as the semester continues.

Lectures were placed well in the first half of the semester - but the last half of the semester seemed rushed with factorial ANOVA concepts smashed into a couple of lectures. The lecturer was also not the best at speaking clear English making understanding processes even more difficult. The assignment was marked by your tutor (which sucked because my tutor was a harsh son of a b), other tutors were very generous with their markings I heard

Lectures were fine until ANOVA. I understand it's a difficult concept in it's entirety but the way it was taught from the inception of that part of the course was very disorganized and there were often errors on the slides that had to be later corrected. Not to mention there's often 3+ hours of lecture content every week! Assignment seemed to be marked pretty generously, with the majority getting Ds and HDs, but keep in mind this is only 30%. Thank goodness the final is an open-book exam or it would have been even more of a tragedy.

The notes for sale on this page don't have the correct Stata commands for factorial ANOVA..

The lectures were very disorganised and difficult to follow. They also provided the incorrect information throughout the semester, which led to our hand-calculated formulas consitently coming up with incorrect p-values. I found youtube videos, Khan academy and LinkedIn learning to be more useful in learning the concepts in this course.