About the Authors

Luisa Cutillo

Contributed equally to this work with: Luisa Cutillo, Annamaria Carissimo

luisa.cutillo@uniparthenope.it

Affiliations Department of Statistics and Mathematics for the Economic Research, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy, Bioinformatics Core, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Annamaria Carissimo

Contributed equally to this work with: Luisa Cutillo, Annamaria Carissimo

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Silvia Figini

Affiliation University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: LC AC SF. Wrote the paper: LC AC SF. Edited the manuscript: LC AC SF. Conceived the overall procedure: LC AC. Comparison to literature procedures on financial data: SF. Simulation and real data analysis: LC AC.