Forecasting Age-Specific Brain Cancer Mortality Rates Using Functional Data Analysis Models

Table 2

Summary of differences (in %) in mortality rates between 2009 and 2018 for all patients. Differences are noted with − and + indicating decreasing and increasing pattern of mortality.

	Before clustering			After clustering
	0–19	20–64	65+	0–19	20–64
Median	−1.22	−0.63	+2.89	−5.14	3.35
Maximum	−1.57	−0.86	+7.26	−6.03	−7.77
Minimum	−0.94	−0.11	+0.11	−4.7	−0.459