Pith Number

pith:YDFUAITY

pith:2017:YDFUAITYVNY7XJD63NKDATAYR4

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Ranking soccer teams on basis of their current strength: a comparison of maximum likelihood approaches

Christophe Ley, Hans Van Eetvelde, Tom Van de Wiele

arxiv:1705.09575 v3 · 2017-05-26 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YDFUAITYVNY7XJD63NKDATAYR4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:00:45.331744Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0cb402278ab71fba47edb54304c188f3dc9b1f5a060e0b61cc1d5ece33be56d

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09575 · arxiv_version: 1705.09575v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09575 · pith_short_12: YDFUAITYVNY7 · pith_short_16: YDFUAITYVNY7XJD6 · pith_short_8: YDFUAITY

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/YDFUAITYVNY7XJD63NKDATAYR4 \
  | 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: c0cb402278ab71fba47edb54304c188f3dc9b1f5a060e0b61cc1d5ece33be56d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "faa9d491b0debfa359c16f81cc61a5140eba91850b8494ef9ef7309b5ccd04fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-26T13:16:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cc5230715f63b63f39f3b5cd6368071115ecd1f5996d9a92fe048576a9fcad7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09575",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}