Pith Number

pith:VOU75P4C

pith:2012:VOU75P4CBOHRXNRMYRTXRFZS22

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Testing approximate normality of an estimator using the estimated MSE and bias with an application to the shape parameter of the generalized Pareto distribution

J. Martin van Zyl

arxiv:1210.2253 v2 · 2012-10-08 · stat.AP

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\pithnumber{VOU75P4CBOHRXNRMYRTXRFZS22}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:39.588758Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aba9febf820b8f1bb62cc467789732d69c2af46d5f57508f159f95c7a7d2cb56

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.2253 · arxiv_version: 1210.2253v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.2253 · pith_short_12: VOU75P4CBOHR · pith_short_16: VOU75P4CBOHRXNRM · pith_short_8: VOU75P4C

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VOU75P4CBOHRXNRMYRTXRFZS22 \
  | 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: aba9febf820b8f1bb62cc467789732d69c2af46d5f57508f159f95c7a7d2cb56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e54b8747f57d63734e2f2027e485b55f137acfb2ad577043fb4a930c2b4a180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-08T12:05:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ab67a374b71ef3957300605fc482a3f866c2ec8d8fdffddc25a8e9de5ac74c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.2253",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}