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pith:KFNOA3KU

pith:2017:KFNOA3KUWF6KWCEZ275YJHPJJT

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An information-theoretic approach for selecting arms in clinical trials

Pavel Mozgunov, Thomas Jaki

arxiv:1708.02426 v2 · 2017-08-08 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{KFNOA3KUWF6KWCEZ275YJHPJJT}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:21:04.774180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

515ae06d54b17cab0899d7fb849de94ccad2f7e8dcc10c6a492e3e44dc71a37a

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02426 · arxiv_version: 1708.02426v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02426 · pith_short_12: KFNOA3KUWF6K · pith_short_16: KFNOA3KUWF6KWCEZ · pith_short_8: KFNOA3KU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KFNOA3KUWF6KWCEZ275YJHPJJT \
  | 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: 515ae06d54b17cab0899d7fb849de94ccad2f7e8dcc10c6a492e3e44dc71a37a

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "909aebca58594474a894812d09f294a539c4cd769eaa629bacf9f7dc9028fadc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-08T09:38:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0407beab2705af50ef4632e4fe78c4af75cb71a62576e2f5c04683de3b2d8a4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}