In this thesis we adress a hypothesis that suggests that people can postpone their imminent death (given natural causes). The so-called "Postponement hypothesis" assumes that a meaningful occasion can act as a motivator ...

Spatio-temporal analysis of COVID-19 data with the two different statistical approaches is the main objective of this thesis. The first classical approach, the Endemic-Epidemic framework (Held et al., 2005) is a class of ...