Comparison of star formation rate and stellar mass of the AGN host galaxies (red circles) and the non-active galaxies of the control sample (blue squares). The red circles are color-coded based on their AGN bolometric luminosity, as retrieved from SED fitting from this work or from the literature. The solid line is the MS at z = 2 from Schreiber et al. (2015) and dashed lines show its scatter (equal to 0.3 dex). The distribution of SFR (right) and M_* (bottom) for AGN (red) and non-active galaxies (blue) in the two side panels are intended for illustration purposes only since the upper limits are considered at face value. A robust comparison of the distribution of SFR and M_* applying the hierarchical method described in Sect. 5.2 is presented in Fig. B.2.