1. The document describes exercises from a statistics modeling course, including instructions to complete exercises 1 and 7 from chapter 3 using provided data files.
2. For exercise 1, the student is asked to describe the association and calculate the cross-correlation between time series variables x and y as the time lag k is varied. For exercise 7, the student continues a time series analysis of global temperature data, including plotting, decomposing, and fitting an appropriate Holt-Winters model to the data.
3. The student provides their work and results for the exercises, including descriptions of relationships between variables, plots, model fitting, and forecasts for 2005-2010 using the fitted Holt-Winters model. They discuss the validity