Pith Number

pith:LQSMXTQK

pith:2015:LQSMXTQKJ4GLVNUYPO6EURIJDU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Adaptive, delayed-acceptance MCMC for targets with expensive likelihoods

Andrew Golightly, Chris Sherlock, Daniel A. Henderson

arxiv:1509.00172 v2 · 2015-09-01 · stat.CO · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LQSMXTQKJ4GLVNUYPO6EURIJDU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:09.606863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c24cbce0a4f0cbab6987bbc4a45091d243b8bde8bed9589dc4923c4fc932dda

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.00172 · arxiv_version: 1509.00172v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.00172 · pith_short_12: LQSMXTQKJ4GL · pith_short_16: LQSMXTQKJ4GLVNUY · pith_short_8: LQSMXTQK

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/LQSMXTQKJ4GLVNUYPO6EURIJDU \
  | 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: 5c24cbce0a4f0cbab6987bbc4a45091d243b8bde8bed9589dc4923c4fc932dda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f1de368938a88ee904fe1f88067f53685027756284ea068f9dd521b86967079",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-01T08:17:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "402ae41d90b47fed512ca4c976b57fb2bd5ec7932a8f09b2577c852e2026f59b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.00172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}