Pith Number

pith:5ZJOCY4M

pith:2017:5ZJOCY4MFVCWGU4C4ETIYZ5ANX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The power of A/B testing under interference

David T. Uminsky, James D. Wilson

arxiv:1710.03855 v1 · 2017-10-10 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5ZJOCY4MFVCWGU4C4ETIYZ5ANX}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:33:05.813815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee52e1638c2d45635382e1268c67a06dce380c546a210fd4f59915b2f12b17cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03855 · arxiv_version: 1710.03855v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03855 · pith_short_12: 5ZJOCY4MFVCW · pith_short_16: 5ZJOCY4MFVCWGU4C · pith_short_8: 5ZJOCY4M

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/5ZJOCY4MFVCWGU4C4ETIYZ5ANX \
  | 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: ee52e1638c2d45635382e1268c67a06dce380c546a210fd4f59915b2f12b17cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14f8e1c641fd35f984d584125f807dad1911e83933cb6b562f50bae3231451b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-10T23:24:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6319b763264b0f0097a29c287255444b1b220c29b7862695eeb0c5c725a1913"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}