@phdthesis{theses_frw3111, year = {2009}, author = {J.W. Hoekstra}, title = {Mortality Research in Europe : ?Discovering regional differences and patterns in mortality and in the socio-economic status, {\'a}nd studying the association between mortality and the socio-economic status.?}, url = {https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3111/}, abstract = {In this master thesis regional differences and patterns in mortality and in the socio-economic status are being discovered by visualizing cause-specific death data and GDP-data in GIS at NUTS2 level in Europe. The association between mortality and the socio-economic status is being studied by using correlation analysis and scatterplots.} }