Hubble diagram plots for 60 nearby SNe Ia. The bottom line shows distances taken from Tonry et al. (2003), with a scatter of 0.19 mag. Top values are calculated with the redshift‐independent marginalization procedure in combination with the BATM method, with a scatter of 0.21 mag. The x‐axis values in both cases are spectroscopic redshifts, not redshifts calculated from the SN photometry. Plots of residuals relative to the Hubble diagrams are shown in the inset, with x‐axis values for Tonry et al. (2003) distances and y‐axis from z‐free distances. There is a clear correlation, indicating that the residuals are due to properties of the SNe rather than some aspect of the BATM method or the redshift marginalization procedure. The dotted diagonal line is not a fit to the data but is to guide the eye.