Table 2.

Summary of the components of the experimental design

Components	Number	Names
Social Networks	Three	Seattle, Los Angeles and New York
Classification Methods	Seven	Linear and Flexible Discriminant Analysis, Nearest Mean Method, Nearest Median Method Minimum Distance Method, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines
Combined Classifiers	Four	Simple voting classifier, linear, exponential, and polynomial weighted voting classifiers
Influenza epidemics	Six	Catastrophic, Mildly Catastrophic, Strong, Mildly Strong, Moderate and Mild
Statistical Methods	Two	McNemar and Chi-square tests