The first mandatory assignment is out

Note that it is allowed to cooperate on the mandatory assignment, but you should all hand in a separate answer. You may of course ask questions about the assignment during the weekly exercise hours on Mondays. Further, many of the problems require programming. You do not have to use R, but if you use another programming language, we might not be able to help you. Also note that there is a lot of relevant R examples in the R code posted in the time table for January 28, February 4 and February 19.

Good luck!