1. INTRODUCTION

2. DATA SAMPLE
2.1. Carnegie Supernova Project-I
2.2. Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II SN Survey
2.3. Supernova Legacy Survey

3. METHODOLOGY
3.1. Background
3.2. Procedure

4. THE PHOTOMETRIC COLOUR METHOD (PCM)
4.1. Methodology
4.2. Results

5. STANDARD CANDLE METHOD
5.1. Photospheric expansion velocities
5.2. Methodology
5.3. Results

6. DISCUSSION
6.1. Sample Comparison
6.2. PCM versus SCM
6.3. SCM versus other works
6.4. H β velocity: A and γ correlation
6.5. Sensitivity to progenitor metallicity?
6.6. Combined SNe Ia and SNe II Hubble diagram
6.7. Malmquist bias

7. CONCLUSIONS