Projected 2pCFs of the mergers and non-mergers and the best-fitting HOD models (solid curves) when the division was performed based on f (samples ℱ_M and ℱ_NM: blue circles and orange squares, respectively, in the top left panel) and g (samples 𝒢_M and 𝒢_NM: green triangles and red diamonds, respectively, in the bottom left panel). The error bars on the markers are the square root of the diagonals of the covariance matrix obtained from the jackknife resampling method. The right panels show the corresponding total (solid), central (dotted), and satellite (dashed) halo occupation functions.