Pith Number

pith:KQZ34WFC

pith:2018:KQZ34WFC6EEAET3ME6JXVDAAXV

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Simple Confidence Intervals for MCMC Without CLTs

Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

arxiv:1812.00126 v1 · 2018-12-01 · stat.ME · math.PR

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\pithnumber{KQZ34WFC6EEAET3ME6JXVDAAXV}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:21.860616Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5433be58a2f108024f6c27937a8c00bd6c780e30fa13507ed687eda42660a76c

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.00126 · arxiv_version: 1812.00126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.00126 · pith_short_12: KQZ34WFC6EEA · pith_short_16: KQZ34WFC6EEAET3M · pith_short_8: KQZ34WFC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KQZ34WFC6EEAET3ME6JXVDAAXV \
  | 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: 5433be58a2f108024f6c27937a8c00bd6c780e30fa13507ed687eda42660a76c

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1efde8e7e10f73a7f28596640171a5251c6ea390e8cf9eafde46fcb08334fab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-01T02:22:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c69d8f11f4d89455d25b8c10748aae1b1226101c0664e5532de76aa75d6c4b99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}