About the Authors

Xianlei Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xianlei Dong, Johan Bollen

sddongxianlei@163.com

Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

Johan Bollen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xianlei Dong, Johan Bollen

Affiliation School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XD JB. Performed the experiments: XD JB. Analyzed the data: XD. Wrote the paper: XD JB.