Pith Number

pith:PL4JM25A

pith:2010:PL4JM25AE76HT43DYWOGPPJGZK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics

Andrew Gelman, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

arxiv:1006.3868 v4 · 2010-06-19 · math.ST · physics.data-an · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PL4JM25AE76HT43DYWOGPPJGZK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:33:12.247702Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7af8966ba027fc79f363c59c67bd26caa0bcd2137700190b122353715f3b38d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.3868 · arxiv_version: 1006.3868v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.3868 · pith_short_12: PL4JM25AE76H · pith_short_16: PL4JM25AE76HT43D · pith_short_8: PL4JM25A

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PL4JM25AE76HT43DYWOGPPJGZK \
  | 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: 7af8966ba027fc79f363c59c67bd26caa0bcd2137700190b122353715f3b38d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e863f50384ef6e98c667f18c8661a533e4dad5c3633732dcd27523203d8b795",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-19T13:18:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "caabe2269444d0628261d1d398284fc5a27cda2c5b1d6dce24e69ed4918c575f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.3868",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}