Pith Number

pith:ZW42A73M

pith:2017:ZW42A73MN6PSAPPWXUCPI7MO6R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Incremental Mixture Importance Sampling with Shotgun optimization

Biljana Jonoska Stojkova, David A. Campbell

arxiv:1711.04827 v1 · 2017-11-13 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZW42A73MN6PSAPPWXUCPI7MO6R}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:35.652731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdb9a07f6c6f9f203df6bd04f47d8ef46529c0381b472fd87459d3c432a9494a

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04827 · arxiv_version: 1711.04827v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04827 · pith_short_12: ZW42A73MN6PS · pith_short_16: ZW42A73MN6PSAPPW · pith_short_8: ZW42A73M

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/ZW42A73MN6PSAPPWXUCPI7MO6R \
  | 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: cdb9a07f6c6f9f203df6bd04f47d8ef46529c0381b472fd87459d3c432a9494a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df02224f37c94047478b742cf0b1ca03ae442ad73868acc61013878df77ecf16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-13T20:09:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d77f4663d0a717bc3c6a179c48c08696ba8561dae70b91efb4904dac10f52100"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}