About the Authors

Fabrizio Iozzi

Affiliation Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Francesco Trusiano

Affiliation Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

Matteo Chinazzi

Affiliation Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

Francesco C. Billari

Affiliation Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Emilio Zagheni

Affiliation Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Stefano Merler

Affiliation Predictive Models for Biomedicine & Environment, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento Povo, Italy

Marco Ajelli

Affiliation Predictive Models for Biomedicine & Environment, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento Povo, Italy

Emanuele Del Fava

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Piero Manfredi

manfredi@ec.unipi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata all'Economia, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FI FT MC FCB SM MA PM. Performed the experiments: FI FT MC SM MA. Analyzed the data: EZ EDF PM. Wrote the paper: FI PM. Design of the paper: PM.