Pith Number

pith:NTNEGBRK

pith:2019:NTNEGBRKJ4SNIW4ZHPFXLUM5ZH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical methods research done as science rather than mathematics

James S. Hodges

arxiv:1905.08381 v1 · 2019-05-20 · stat.OT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NTNEGBRKJ4SNIW4ZHPFXLUM5ZH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:45:43.396403Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cda43062a4f24d45b993bcb75d19dc9df06e61d6564d99af491f6d1fdfea64a

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.08381 · arxiv_version: 1905.08381v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.08381 · pith_short_12: NTNEGBRKJ4SN · pith_short_16: NTNEGBRKJ4SNIW4Z · pith_short_8: NTNEGBRK

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/NTNEGBRKJ4SNIW4ZHPFXLUM5ZH \
  | 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: 6cda43062a4f24d45b993bcb75d19dc9df06e61d6564d99af491f6d1fdfea64a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5da35f418bf3d0bdd712c83376eaea1b1dbd8ab5f9c8030ab0077227e824751",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-20T23:29:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17d105db1ae729a2ca078a18b2fcbd56259ad2cbbf6a41ace1f547028755dcb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.08381",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}