Pith Number

pith:AOZRNU7U

pith:2021:AOZRNU7UW6YWZZVXGH6OVQQ4BD

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A statistical analysis of death rates in Italy for the years 2015-2020 and a comparison with the casualties reported for the COVID-19 pandemic

Alberto Oliva, Antonio Zoccoli, Daniele Pedrini, Dario Menasce, Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista, Mauro Mezzetto, Roberto Spighi

arxiv:2102.01629 v5 · 2021-02-02 · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP

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\pithnumber{AOZRNU7UW6YWZZVXGH6OVQQ4BD}

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:25:37.942529Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03b316d3f4b7b16ce6b731fceac21c08f618056aa7a31a7b00296072ff399cb5

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.01629 · arxiv_version: 2102.01629v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.01629 · pith_short_12: AOZRNU7UW6YW · pith_short_16: AOZRNU7UW6YWZZVX · pith_short_8: AOZRNU7U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AOZRNU7UW6YWZZVXGH6OVQQ4BD \
  | 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: 03b316d3f4b7b16ce6b731fceac21c08f618056aa7a31a7b00296072ff399cb5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47fb6d09195d470637e0303f5d66c825209646f1765c0f8ab3fdac48045464d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-02T17:38:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bdb045150da6be0510811ccc235479aa38dfbd7698b281d196f4ac5032a52099"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.01629",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}