... between exposure and death out of the risk pool. Hence, the direction of the effect of an air pollution episode on the size of the riskpool, and the effect of the risk pool on the death rateover ... (and its standard error) for the first 10 days and for days 11– 40 before the death. The effect estimate (ϫ1000) was 0.922 Ϯ 0.184 for the first10 days of exposure, and 0.688 Ϯ 0.261 for the deathsassociated ... shows the ten cities, their populations, the study period in each location, and the mean and stan-dard deviation of the number of daily deaths and envi-ronmental variables. Further details of the...