Pith Number

pith:WYJQHW6U

pith:2016:WYJQHW6UKVWNVCJVH33NXFWAJ6

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Comparative Causal Mediation and Relaxing the Assumption of No Mediator-Outcome Confounding: An Application to International Law and Audience Costs

Kirk Bansak

arxiv:1612.08699 v4 · 2016-12-27 · stat.ME · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WYJQHW6UKVWNVCJVH33NXFWAJ6}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:47.280018Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b61303dbd4556cda89353ef6db96c04f8e8c18bb0223947e090d7a4d24d4cdd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.08699 · arxiv_version: 1612.08699v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.08699 · pith_short_12: WYJQHW6UKVWN · pith_short_16: WYJQHW6UKVWNVCJV · pith_short_8: WYJQHW6U

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/WYJQHW6UKVWNVCJVH33NXFWAJ6 \
  | 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: b61303dbd4556cda89353ef6db96c04f8e8c18bb0223947e090d7a4d24d4cdd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74cbd06076ff71a3e06bd753c52108042eb42b52ebe83f28cfcf85488f63168e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-27T18:19:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c39400a09b1f491a418a0c39894767fb02accd163ac50129435129bba8b7bff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.08699",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}