Pith Number

pith:BJKWXUIO

pith:2011:BJKWXUIOZPUM72UIK6EXUMDXTN

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A note on stochastic ordering of estimators of exponential reliability

Piotr Nowak

arxiv:1108.2232 v3 · 2011-08-10 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{BJKWXUIOZPUM72UIK6EXUMDXTN}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:10:11.976988Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a556bd10ecbe8cfea8857897a30779b56129fe18adacc259a03bd1f6e2def82

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.2232 · arxiv_version: 1108.2232v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.2232 · pith_short_12: BJKWXUIOZPUM · pith_short_16: BJKWXUIOZPUM72UI · pith_short_8: BJKWXUIO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BJKWXUIOZPUM72UIK6EXUMDXTN \
  | 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: 0a556bd10ecbe8cfea8857897a30779b56129fe18adacc259a03bd1f6e2def82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9826c9c7b4c5637a3bc1f6a9eee85e371fd9bdcd4af00cde03bd4cbf5f721d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-10T18:11:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "679e4dba8cdbc12ca73f034db6d9d797de3ee81c7dac47a84976fd9c9af661ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.2232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}