Pith Number

pith:RKGSMRQK

pith:2015:RKGSMRQKIUZVER2MW6N25JW45H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A simple sampler for the horseshoe estimator

Daniel F. Schmidt, Enes Makalic

arxiv:1508.03884 v4 · 2015-08-17 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RKGSMRQKIUZVER2MW6N25JW45H}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:13.383192Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a8d26460a453352474cb79baea6dce9cff0b0a3b5aee06f44414495d7fddb7d

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03884 · arxiv_version: 1508.03884v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03884 · pith_short_12: RKGSMRQKIUZV · pith_short_16: RKGSMRQKIUZVER2M · pith_short_8: RKGSMRQK

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/RKGSMRQKIUZVER2MW6N25JW45H \
  | 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: 8a8d26460a453352474cb79baea6dce9cff0b0a3b5aee06f44414495d7fddb7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8feaa0b504b9b208eabc587af55c35c3cf0d07e2c26c8bd109ea73c4ed7c0a3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-17T00:28:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32130bbb2dce26879c830297c7e649aa3de1def8fe918a3e933c4c6f13b39dac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03884",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}