Comparison of results obtained for the mean value of the parameter α (powerlaw case) in the ℓ = 30° field using the MHPT (green plus signs), MultiNest (red triangles), and WinBUGS (blue asterisks) methods, as a function of f_M = (M_inf2 − M_inf1)/(M_inf1 + M_inf2), where M_inf1 and M_inf2 are the extremes of the prior range for M_inf (see text). The larger symbols correspond to the values listed in Table 2.