Pith Number

pith:X4IHBNLB

pith:2016:X4IHBNLBLVQONNSKRHGPZWU3XQ

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The Lindley paradox: The loss of resolution in Bayesian inference

Colin H. LaMont, Paul A. Wiggins

arxiv:1610.09433 v2 · 2016-10-29 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4IHBNLBLVQONNSKRHGPZWU3XQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:54.744265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf1070b5615d60e6b64a89ccfcda9bbc03922a36cd04ee70b2d81017d5c6039d

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.09433 · arxiv_version: 1610.09433v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.09433 · pith_short_12: X4IHBNLBLVQO · pith_short_16: X4IHBNLBLVQONNSK · pith_short_8: X4IHBNLB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X4IHBNLBLVQONNSKRHGPZWU3XQ \
  | 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: bf1070b5615d60e6b64a89ccfcda9bbc03922a36cd04ee70b2d81017d5c6039d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2f65a2b372a99d5b275a92b0ba5364d4f3ff679f029c889ac05f27fced73dad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-29T00:53:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "498238bfe5a0c64524b45c4b6d999c4e59447b649456ca6446dfbb8faa8eec50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.09433",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}