Pith Number

pith:YLIQMHN2

pith:2018:YLIQMHN2FO2REVDTMCNSMHQS7P

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Detection of Sparse Mixtures: Higher Criticism and Scan Statistic

Andrew Ying, Ery Arias-Castro

arxiv:1802.08715 v1 · 2018-02-23 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLIQMHN2FO2REVDTMCNSMHQS7P}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:36.677967Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2d1061dba2bb5125473609b261e12fbd90dbec0a25890c9e98cd20946bc22ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08715 · arxiv_version: 1802.08715v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08715 · pith_short_12: YLIQMHN2FO2R · pith_short_16: YLIQMHN2FO2REVDT · pith_short_8: YLIQMHN2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YLIQMHN2FO2REVDTMCNSMHQS7P \
  | 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: c2d1061dba2bb5125473609b261e12fbd90dbec0a25890c9e98cd20946bc22ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3637ae9d0f1befaa6a3a96f9b76514bb6ec6f3d16714421f469bc59e4ced995",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-23T19:53:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f59d8ba3a635c044b84b7cb5902295c5deed403c218f41787bd595931128daf1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.08715",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}