Pith Number

pith:2ZBTISLI

pith:2015:2ZBTISLIPKWH62AZIIGQRDLF4Q

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The Third Way Of Probability & Statistics: Beyond Testing and Estimation To Importance, Relevance, and Skill

William M. Briggs

arxiv:1508.02384 v1 · 2015-08-09 · stat.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZBTISLIPKWH62AZIIGQRDLF4Q}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:35:29.352591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6433449687aac7f6819420d088d65e43f3f4ad46061d635c5442290648f1db3

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.02384 · arxiv_version: 1508.02384v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.02384 · pith_short_12: 2ZBTISLIPKWH · pith_short_16: 2ZBTISLIPKWH62AZ · pith_short_8: 2ZBTISLI

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2ZBTISLIPKWH62AZIIGQRDLF4Q \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d6433449687aac7f6819420d088d65e43f3f4ad46061d635c5442290648f1db3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06184ebe88fa9893e62fdde226c62bc5b059acf468215ffdf9c7b5cdf98091d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-09T20:57:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee80cdb1c7eb6bd02af251669a49933135d9ce08bfac3fd9040a12ff2b2bc5d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.02384",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}