About the Authors

Jamshid Ardalankia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Dataism Laboratory for Quantitative Finance, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Ali Habibnia

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Dataism Laboratory for Quantitative Finance, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Marcel Ausloos

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Business, University of Leicester, Brookfield, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, Group of Researchers Applying Physics in Economy and Sociology (GRAPES), Beauvallon, Liège Angleur, Belgium, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

G. Reza Jafari

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

gjafari@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, Iran, Center for Communications Technology, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom, Chandigarh Group of Colleges Jhanjeri, Punjab, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.