About the Authors

Laura Fumanelli

lfumanelli@fbk.eu

Affiliation Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Marco Ajelli

Affiliation Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Piero Manfredi

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Mathematics Applied to Economics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Alessandro Vespignani

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences and College of Computer and Information Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin, Italy

Stefano Merler

Affiliation Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA PM AV SM. Performed the experiments: LF MA. Analyzed the data: LF MA PM AV SM. Wrote the paper: LF MA PM AV SM. Developed the model: LF MA SM.