Top: NGC 6334 cumulative CMF shown in solid black line fitted by a single power-law d N∕d   log(M) ∝ M^−1.1 indicated with a black dotted line. The grey area represents the synthetic CMFs for 100 000 groups of cores. The Salpeter IMF, shownwith a black dashed line, shows a different slope compared to the CMF. Bottom: KDE of the power-law indices of the synthetic CMFs. The vertical dashed lines show the power-law index of Salpeter IMF and the power-law index of the CMF in the NGC 6334 region.