Pith Number

pith:P4Q6MHMU

pith:2015:P4Q6MHMUVFIKDVDPHT4GWC3QWS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are Discoveries Spurious? Distributions of Maximum Spurious Correlations and Their Applications

Jianqing Fan, Qi-Man Shao, Wen-Xin Zhou

arxiv:1502.04237 v4 · 2015-02-14 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P4Q6MHMUVFIKDVDPHT4GWC3QWS}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:39:53.187279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f21e61d94a950a1d46f3cf86b0b70b49767c8a2846e5fc8257b5e9cc2b318b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.04237 · arxiv_version: 1502.04237v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.04237 · pith_short_12: P4Q6MHMUVFIK · pith_short_16: P4Q6MHMUVFIKDVDP · pith_short_8: P4Q6MHMU

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/P4Q6MHMUVFIKDVDPHT4GWC3QWS \
  | 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: 7f21e61d94a950a1d46f3cf86b0b70b49767c8a2846e5fc8257b5e9cc2b318b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2078fb7e63dc86cc172184c6e57c43047b85302b1b8092c989f6945768cd1c13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-14T19:42:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a3d93a8c570db4cef3d8be6eebe6a9fea881722c1bce06507ac22bdc149ea81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.04237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}