Literature data
have been taken from Maesano et al. (1997),
Fan et al. (1998; with dates taken from Fan & Lin 2000), Webb
et al. (1998),
Bai et al. (1999), Tosti et al. (1999), Ghosh et al. (2000), Katajainen et al. (2000),
Clements & Carini (2001), Fan et al. (2001),Sobrito et al. (2001),
Papadakis et al. (2003), Tosti et al. (2004). Sometimes the data
used in this paper
do not exactly correspond to the original ones since some correction/removal
(often done in agreement with the data owners) was needed. Moreover, some datasets
were completely re-analysed.