Pith Number

pith:4HSTMVO6

pith:2015:4HSTMVO6ZJ6NWH3M4XXO2WYFSC

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Minimum Distance Approach to Inference with Many Instruments

Michal Koles\'ar

arxiv:1504.02911 v3 · 2015-04-11 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4HSTMVO6ZJ6NWH3M4XXO2WYFSC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:45.006844Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1e53655deca7cdb1f6ce5eeed5b059096bab0f793eb65e93901f99e6680a800

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.02911 · arxiv_version: 1504.02911v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.02911 · pith_short_12: 4HSTMVO6ZJ6N · pith_short_16: 4HSTMVO6ZJ6NWH3M · pith_short_8: 4HSTMVO6

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/4HSTMVO6ZJ6NWH3M4XXO2WYFSC \
  | 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: e1e53655deca7cdb1f6ce5eeed5b059096bab0f793eb65e93901f99e6680a800

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "acdc7ed18d36923902cff4feccdb8446cb59ed497ddd6e9e7ba6b3fefcb0086a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-11T19:40:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47ad3bf0cedfe81907b810292a9fb2e20789707eadabba72c4fa8855308d2b9c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.02911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}