Pith Number

pith:J5DE3JA5

pith:2016:J5DE3JA545XWNB3CE22YVM2W76

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Reduced Perplexity: A simplified perspective on assessing probabilistic forecasts

Kenric P. Nelson

arxiv:1603.08830 v5 · 2016-03-15 · stat.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J5DE3JA545XWNB3CE22YVM2W76}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:33.214043Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f464da41de76f66876226b58ab356ffa050355f565e7b83560743881c71813e

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.08830 · arxiv_version: 1603.08830v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.08830 · pith_short_12: J5DE3JA545XW · pith_short_16: J5DE3JA545XWNB3C · pith_short_8: J5DE3JA5

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/J5DE3JA545XWNB3CE22YVM2W76 \
  | 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: 4f464da41de76f66876226b58ab356ffa050355f565e7b83560743881c71813e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14fd92d4e6cd4419aae3ca136d17db56cd13675490ca84a806d82ed02c36f6cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-15T14:40:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "80504c48951c9bdf24822f344daf475880db6b90afd86ea48c8f7472cec16fe8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.08830",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}