Pith Number

pith:JTGOBYDQ

pith:2012:JTGOBYDQOBKDCWTJJRGQUN3XCH

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It is Time to Stop Teaching Frequentism to Non-statisticians

William M. Briggs

arxiv:1201.2590 v1 · 2012-01-12 · stat.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JTGOBYDQOBKDCWTJJRGQUN3XCH}

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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	2026-05-18T04:04:44.061572Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ccce0e0707054315a694c4d0a377711def4de007308f4b7a816ab27d8fd338b

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.2590 · arxiv_version: 1201.2590v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.2590 · pith_short_12: JTGOBYDQOBKD · pith_short_16: JTGOBYDQOBKDCWTJ · pith_short_8: JTGOBYDQ

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/JTGOBYDQOBKDCWTJJRGQUN3XCH \
  | 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: 4ccce0e0707054315a694c4d0a377711def4de007308f4b7a816ab27d8fd338b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3289d53ba946efc979ad5643fa40265c0c23b0d35c7afe1a8fcf8474258cc376",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-12T15:24:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55d4542e458130f710a38b2cdd6266629e1f1b6f40e78b20944d71c27a3ff4ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.2590",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}