Pith Number

pith:BY543JCM

pith:2015:BY543JCMB64Y6ITMBUBVOKK74Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Stopped Negative Binomial Distribution

Daniel Zelterman, Michael J. Kane, Michelle DeVeaux

arxiv:1508.01264 v8 · 2015-08-06 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BY543JCMB64Y6ITMBUBVOKK74Y}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:17.376952Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e3bcda44c0fb98f226c0d0357295fe609fa923bf9b784f7f2ac7c10171609c2

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.01264 · arxiv_version: 1508.01264v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01264 · pith_short_12: BY543JCMB64Y · pith_short_16: BY543JCMB64Y6ITM · pith_short_8: BY543JCM

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/BY543JCMB64Y6ITMBUBVOKK74Y \
  | 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: 0e3bcda44c0fb98f226c0d0357295fe609fa923bf9b784f7f2ac7c10171609c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7819eaef19b21604efd15352d82096262827e8c30734e26ad5950126f17f129e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-06T02:24:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c5bf30b8f0624cfda6c010f5fc2a50fc95a38b7da8110b796cfb391888c1d0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.01264",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 8
  }
}