Pith Number

pith:HKRO537H

pith:2026:HKRO537H5CWDM6JYL7I7NWOJOJ

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Modifying causal models to distinguish between transient and lasting causal effects

Ian Shrier, Naftali Weinberger, Russell Steele, Tess Baker

arxiv:2605.29961 v1 · 2026-05-28 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HKRO537H5CWDM6JYL7I7NWOJOJ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-29T02:06:03.931268Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3aa2eeefe7e8ac3679385fd1f6d9c972666d0000bf27c7d50c746fca009c5e00

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29961 · arxiv_version: 2605.29961v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29961 · pith_short_12: HKRO537H5CWD · pith_short_16: HKRO537H5CWDM6JY · pith_short_8: HKRO537H

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HKRO537H5CWDM6JYL7I7NWOJOJ \
  | 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: 3aa2eeefe7e8ac3679385fd1f6d9c972666d0000bf27c7d50c746fca009c5e00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b745412758f89e5d30a294eb180d4a27af92c5c9f7eb5102fc5009604cde44ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T14:02:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96f6d0efa350c3b278bcb84cb83ce1b4edf5c3b602a21d152be86f12af7973a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}