Table 1.

Main effects used for the analysis of variance

Effect	Group boundaries	Group size
TWL—length of the time window chosen to analyse the development of the graph over time	TWL = 1	1096
	2 ≤ TWL ≤ 4	1184
	5 ≤ TWL ≤ 12	1106
	13 ≤ TWL 35	1110
	36 ≤ TWL ≤ 105	1080
	TWL ≥ 106	1166
Mean number—arithmetic mean of the number of connected components (containing more than one node) between two consecutive time steps	Mean number ≤ 4	2177
	5 ≤ Mean number ≤ 11	2324
	Mean number ≥ 12	2248
Mean size—arithmetic mean of the average sizes of all connected components containing more than one node between two consecutive time steps	Mean size ≤ 3	1830
	3 < Mean size ≤ 4.5	1692
	4.5 < Mean size ≤ 23	1569
	Mean size > 23	1658
Mean edges—arithmetic mean between the number of edges between two consecutive time steps	Mean edges ≤ 20	2327
	21 ≤ Mean edges ≤ 125	2134
	Mean edges ≥ 126	2288
Mean first—arithmetic mean of the sizes of the largest connected components between two consecutive time steps	Mean first ≤ 7	2235
	8 ≤ Mean first ≤ 60	2228
	Mean first ≥ 61	2286
Mean active-first—arithmetic mean of the differences between active nodes and the size of the largest network component between two consecutive time steps	Mean active-first ≤ 8	2262
	9 ≤ Mean active-first ≤ 35	2223
	Mean active-first ≥ 36	2264