Table 4.

Predictions for a random half-sample based on the luminosity functions of the complementary half-sample

Statistic	〈m〉	sm	β	ρ1
Observed value	17.93	0.43	0.29	−0.97
C1 prediction	17.67 ± 0.04	0.71 ± 0.05	0.55 ± 0.13	−0.92 ± 0.01
C1 prediction	17.91 ± 0.02	0.39 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.08	−0.97 ± 0.003
Errors, SD,
C1	−7.2	6.1	1.9	4.7
C2	−0.7	−1.9	0.1	0.6
Errors for C1, physical units	−0.26	0.28	0.25	0.05
Errors for C2 predictions of C1 results	−0.28 ± 0.05	0.29 ± 0.06	0.43 ± 0.19	0.05 ± 0.2