Pith Number

pith:NNFZJNZY

pith:2016:NNFZJNZYF7DQUXQS3UX6NYUCNF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discrete approximation of a mixture distribution via restricted divergence

Christian R\"over, Tim Friede

arxiv:1602.04060 v2 · 2016-02-12 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NNFZJNZYF7DQUXQS3UX6NYUCNF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:35.782468Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b4b94b7382fc70a5e12dd2fe6e282697eea456e287ec0a70c11ed421191f2b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.04060 · arxiv_version: 1602.04060v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04060 · pith_short_12: NNFZJNZYF7DQ · pith_short_16: NNFZJNZYF7DQUXQS · pith_short_8: NNFZJNZY

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/NNFZJNZYF7DQUXQS3UX6NYUCNF \
  | 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: 6b4b94b7382fc70a5e12dd2fe6e282697eea456e287ec0a70c11ed421191f2b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd7a31f16e5171cd0ba4eeb8073e49db43611a2b0041f0e7fb75ee613907abf3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-12T14:08:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea28afb95c9956eeb3632a2ddf6d4d16c6b2f71b07ecacd4f5877f77be04f6f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.04060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}