Number of SLSNe-I detected, per redshift bin (Δz = 0.5), during the five years of the EDS (combining both the northern and southern EDS observations). Gold stars denote the “gold sample” (three filter detections for each of three epochs, or 3e3f in legend), while the silver circles are the “silver sample” (two filter detections for each of three epochs, or 3e2f). The error bars are Poisson uncertainties based on the number of SLSNe-I in each bin (Gehrels 1986), while the rates assumed are for our optimistic model (see text). Both gold and silver points are offset of Δz = 0.05 to facilitate the reading.