Table 5.

Rank of predictor and significant causality results

Rank of predictor	Number of repetitions	Percentage (%)	AC	AUPRC
PM2.5 → deaths	17,945	0.87	4.948	True
NO2 → deaths	17,168	0.86	4.795	False
CO2 → deaths	18,191	0.92	4.741	False
lnPM2.5 → lnDeaths	18,178	0.91	4.124	False
dPM2.5 → dDeaths	18,197	0.74	4.172	False
dNO2 → dDeaths	18,189	0.74	4.124	False
d.lnPM2.5 → d.lnDeaths	21,419	0.73	4.189	False
d.lnNO2 → d.lnDeaths	21,444	0.70	4.144	False
PM2.5(s) → deaths(s)	16,973	0.70	4.277	False
NO2s → deaths(s)	16,211	0.74	4.211	False

In Appendix Table 6: D2C core commands

AC: Average Causality value. AUPRC: Area Under the Precision Recall Curve. True P-val. < 0.05. False P-val. ≥ 0.05. ln is the logarithmic transformation; (s) is the square of the considered values; there are 7 unused variables