Pith Number

pith:MFQKUGGM

pith:2014:MFQKUGGMI3X6YRXCY3U5ETT4OO

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Stein's method for comparison of univariate distributions

Christophe Ley, Gesine Reinert, Yvik Swan

arxiv:1408.2998 v3 · 2014-08-13 · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{MFQKUGGMI3X6YRXCY3U5ETT4OO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:18.573605Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6160aa18cc46efec46e2c6e9d24e7c73a70bb5bfd3057d5c00a20540e9b7f679

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.2998 · arxiv_version: 1408.2998v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.2998 · pith_short_12: MFQKUGGMI3X6 · pith_short_16: MFQKUGGMI3X6YRXC · pith_short_8: MFQKUGGM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MFQKUGGMI3X6YRXCY3U5ETT4OO \
  | 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: 6160aa18cc46efec46e2c6e9d24e7c73a70bb5bfd3057d5c00a20540e9b7f679

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b626d57d4ea876648b5ee8faa0da825801a9628c6eef9fb39bbf90e28456fbc",
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      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-13T13:04:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae8a363b5b8f43ed185399b16a044337217a647e0130c3501543fe75ac7361dd"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}