Pith Number

pith:ZBPQ7C22

pith:2017:ZBPQ7C224GYXQVHZOPFRKIAS5T

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On the proper treatment of improper distributions

Bo H. Lindqvist, Gunnar Taraldsen

arxiv:1711.02064 v1 · 2017-11-06 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBPQ7C224GYXQVHZOPFRKIAS5T}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:14.457437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c85f0f8b5ae1b17854f973cb152012ecc24627724a3c9e862c338163909b3044

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02064 · arxiv_version: 1711.02064v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02064 · pith_short_12: ZBPQ7C224GYX · pith_short_16: ZBPQ7C224GYXQVHZ · pith_short_8: ZBPQ7C22

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/ZBPQ7C224GYXQVHZOPFRKIAS5T \
  | 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: c85f0f8b5ae1b17854f973cb152012ecc24627724a3c9e862c338163909b3044

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54d071cba22a9598331877d3584ac3b64ff16cce1cd55bce9083ca66dff86684",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-06T18:20:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "788089bbd7564ee5338f8f82847e146423bf193435882eae24957c93679104fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.02064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}