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STATS C183

Statistical Models in Finance

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 1 section. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 68 minutes ago.

Grades

3.61

Average grade awarded in STATS C183. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

60%

of the 182 letter grades

D, F or W

0.0%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

4%

6 of 8 students passed

The registrar's own records: 182 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

No summer session is in that record.

The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.55 to 3.80.

Historical grades for CHRISTOU, NICOLAS, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • A 68 · 37.4%
  • A- 41 · 22.5%
  • B+ 49 · 26.9%
  • B 22 · 12.1%
  • B- 2 · 1.1%
  • P 6 of 190
  • NP 2 of 190

Percentages are of the 182 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).

How the non-letter outcomes are counted

They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
CHRISTOU, NICOLAS reviews ↗ 3.61 3.61 182 5 60% average Closed by the department
Why Predicted is not the Raw average

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

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Reviews for STATS C183

Workload and assignments

Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 6 courses long before STATS C183. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 170A and MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Falls

Ran in 3 of the last 4 Falls.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 100B. Designed for juniors/seniors and graduate students. Statistical techniques in investment theory using real market data. Portfolio management, risk diversification, efficient frontier, single index model, capital asset pricing model (CAPM), beta of a stock, European and American options (Black/Scholes model, binomial model). Concurrently scheduled with course C283. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 27 and 49 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 39 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Christou, N. · 50 enrolled

Same seat count, but the status went closed to closed by the department, the cap stopped being published, and the seat count moved and came back over about 1 month

50 of 50 · no seats left
18 Aug 19:409 Sep 18:311 Oct 17:22
dibs read 168 of the 522 hours its hourly record covers, 32%, and did not look in 354. dibs had no hourly record before 10 Sep, which is the other 533 of 1055 plotted.50 of 50 enrolled at the newest reading, 68 minutes ago, and no seats left. Seats from 18 Aug 19:40 to 1 Oct 17:22, 50 to 50. dibs read 168 of the 522 hours its hourly record here covers, 32%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 354 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 10 September at 00:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 533 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.