Complementary cumulative mass distribution for all of the starless cores. Colour coding is as in Fig. 5. The quasi-bias-free maximum likelihood estimator power-law index, α_MML= 1.59 ± 0.04, is plottedas a light green band with central dashed grey line, and the lower limit was taken as 0.01 M_⊙. The vertical dashed light grey line shows the lower truncation limit of 0.01M_⊙ that was used for the MML estimator. The equivalent power-law index of the d N∕dlogM distribution for comparison with the binned data of Fig. 10 is .