Fig. 5

Violin plots of the log-scaled epidemic size (\(Y_C\)) distributions of 10,000 simulation runs based on each of 15 testbeds. Each simulation run is based on a distinct opinion-related parameter tuple (\(O_1,\dots ,O_6\)). Plots are sorted by the mean of the log-scaled epidemic size. Epidemic sizes are measured in the number of total new infections during the simulation time in a virtual social system with a 50,000 population size. The red dots in the figure represent the response values (\(Y_C\)) of the models fitted to the corresponding data. Plots show that the consequence could be much better or much worse depending on the given conditions of opinion dynamics