Pith Number

pith:45EA3BF5

pith:2017:45EA3BF5OBN3BEMOJDB7UIHTCL

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A Simple Online Parameter Estimation Technique with Asymptotic Guarantees

Hien D Nguyen

arxiv:1703.07039 v1 · 2017-03-21 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45EA3BF5OBN3BEMOJDB7UIHTCL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:11.524846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7480d84bd705bb0918e48c3fa20f312ffb75f0996836cdf2a3701acfec5ef43

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07039 · arxiv_version: 1703.07039v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07039 · pith_short_12: 45EA3BF5OBN3 · pith_short_16: 45EA3BF5OBN3BEMO · pith_short_8: 45EA3BF5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/45EA3BF5OBN3BEMOJDB7UIHTCL \
  | 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: e7480d84bd705bb0918e48c3fa20f312ffb75f0996836cdf2a3701acfec5ef43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da665b0029852e25195bff06fd4e79fa51aea491ebb8aa7793f891cbd5a2183c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T03:27:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f8de7b3fbfcd69d35eb5e77b6e88e105b79ae55e09a5cc462a6ae47184cebb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}