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pith:X5ILLPKU

pith:2026:X5ILLPKUQG65OYR4LNZK6GVBYO

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Rethinking Software Empirical Studies with Structural Causal Models

Antonio Mastropaolo, Aya Garryyeva, Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas, David Nader Palacio, Denys Poshyvanyk

arxiv:2605.28482 v1 · 2026-05-27 · cs.SE

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First computed	2026-05-28T02:04:54.244201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf50b5bd5481bdd7623c5b72af1aa1c389cb6145442468e53ed22b6b93e5b088

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.28482 · arxiv_version: 2605.28482v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.28482 · pith_short_12: X5ILLPKUQG65 · pith_short_16: X5ILLPKUQG65OYR4 · pith_short_8: X5ILLPKU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X5ILLPKUQG65OYR4LNZK6GVBYO \
  | 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: bf50b5bd5481bdd7623c5b72af1aa1c389cb6145442468e53ed22b6b93e5b088

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-27T13:41:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72f48bf32c11d0e849997f99d6e3ec3ccb08da878ef463b9c02a855d93ae1a19"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}