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pith:BASXY25D

pith:2019:BASXY25DHCJIUNYJ5FNL2SK2MT

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Empirical Bayes estimation of normal means, accounting for uncertainty in estimated standard errors

Matthew Stephens, Mengyin Lu

arxiv:1901.10679 v1 · 2019-01-30 · stat.ME

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:55:06.292975Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08257c6ba338928a3709e95abd495a64cfb625dc6f488ea95853d12a3540d368

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.10679 · arxiv_version: 1901.10679v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.10679 · pith_short_12: BASXY25DHCJI · pith_short_16: BASXY25DHCJIUNYJ · pith_short_8: BASXY25D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BASXY25DHCJIUNYJ5FNL2SK2MT \
  | 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: 08257c6ba338928a3709e95abd495a64cfb625dc6f488ea95853d12a3540d368

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-30T05:41:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9350ba8e0d9f0092f7f9631b165e70d3da61b3a650e9b1a554bc8c7db43c4fa7"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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