Pith Number

pith:F6PFWDQC

pith:2018:F6PFWDQC6EQDTIN62BUKVAZ6NQ

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Batch size selection for variance estimators in MCMC

Dootika Vats, James M. Flegal, Ying Liu

arxiv:1804.05975 v3 · 2018-04-16 · math.ST · stat.CO · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6PFWDQC6EQDTIN62BUKVAZ6NQ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:40:24.198981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f9e5b0e02f12039a1bed068aa833e6c25b7cd6c92d82044c139debd896f4ef8

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05975 · arxiv_version: 1804.05975v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05975 · pith_short_12: F6PFWDQC6EQD · pith_short_16: F6PFWDQC6EQDTIN6 · pith_short_8: F6PFWDQC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F6PFWDQC6EQDTIN62BUKVAZ6NQ \
  | 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: 2f9e5b0e02f12039a1bed068aa833e6c25b7cd6c92d82044c139debd896f4ef8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db230595778ddbb36fb27ee0c5f9377c0881e38fa9ee278a33c8f87e224f8a48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-16T23:16:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5773caaf34306788cf8573cd043e52d7e859303a07caa10f4e1a1c245905a9de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}