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pith:MGFQIBGW

pith:2022:MGFQIBGWC5KZXC3BLRTDIIMFAB

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How to sample and when to stop sampling: The generalized Wald problem and minimax policies

Karun Adusumilli

arxiv:2210.15841 v7 · 2022-10-28 · econ.EM

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:57:51.540781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

618b0404d617559b8b615c66342185006b5fe73bfc0ceb128141c2ff44ac368a

Aliases

arxiv: 2210.15841 · arxiv_version: 2210.15841v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.15841 · pith_short_12: MGFQIBGWC5KZ · pith_short_16: MGFQIBGWC5KZXC3B · pith_short_8: MGFQIBGW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MGFQIBGWC5KZXC3BLRTDIIMFAB \
  | 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: 618b0404d617559b8b615c66342185006b5fe73bfc0ceb128141c2ff44ac368a

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b58e6ba4077f73f391727c226e2da3190dc34d36a982bc756ac96adad1c4d30",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2022-10-28T02:23:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4610bf6c54f950d91d8b0a0ca570b90208177f8e9e15aef7cbb54cb92e5faf6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2210.15841",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}