Effect of different prescription of the Eddington bias on the observed GSMF. The black line shows a Schechter function representing a GSMF with α ≃ − 1.6 and M_∗ ≃ 11. The open blue squares show the resulting GSMF in bins of 0.2 in log M after convolution with a constant PDF at all masses, as adopted by Ilbert et al. (2013) at z = 4. The green filled squares represent the GSMF after convolution with the more realistic mass-dependent PDF that widens when mass decreases as we find in CANDELS (Fig. B.1).