Pith Number

pith:ZDNWUZ3K

pith:2012:ZDNWUZ3KC77F6JJAL7N3RWV2YW

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On Convergence Properties of the Monte Carlo EM Algorithm

Ronald C. Neath

arxiv:1206.4768 v1 · 2012-06-21 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{ZDNWUZ3KC77F6JJAL7N3RWV2YW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:53:03.775157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8db6a676a17fe5f25205fdbb8dabac58fa2e0aa85060dcde5eb5827435f7323

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4768 · arxiv_version: 1206.4768v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4768 · pith_short_12: ZDNWUZ3KC77F · pith_short_16: ZDNWUZ3KC77F6JJA · pith_short_8: ZDNWUZ3K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZDNWUZ3KC77F6JJAL7N3RWV2YW \
  | 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: c8db6a676a17fe5f25205fdbb8dabac58fa2e0aa85060dcde5eb5827435f7323

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fee80a8e8f1b7ca5cdbdb859c459694155d62584041971a6c3c3d659c42bf46a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-21T03:14:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77a73ae24eb5388f364bdabdb5240818ddc69d8d6074941d3f747896536189e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4768",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}