She knew what data she would use. The water quality records from the Guadalquivir river, 1975 to the present. No one had modeled the changing probability of algal blooms under rising temperatures. That would be her first problem.
Professor Emilio Herrera had been dead for three years, yet his final problem set haunted the graduate students of the University of Seville like a ghost story told in the dark. Solucionario Estadistica Matematica Con Aplicaciones
The course was Estadistica Matematica Con Aplicaciones — a brutal, beautiful monster of probability densities, likelihood ratios, and Bayesian inference. The textbook was thick as a tombstone. And the legendary "Solucionario," written by Herrera himself, was said to exist on a single, crumbling USB drive, hidden somewhere in his old office. She knew what data she would use
She formatted the USB drive, wiping the Solucionario clean. That would be her first problem