Pith Number

pith:2EBVCA2R

pith:2026:2EBVCA2RT4KDLFEB45WGLPEP6R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maximum Likelihood Criterion for Non-nested Model Selection

Min Tsao

arxiv:2606.22403 v1 · 2026-06-21 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2EBVCA2RT4KDLFEB45WGLPEP6R}

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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	2026-06-23T02:13:37.499745Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1035103519f14359481e76c65bc8ff4431ace69470a2ddc23ab4e5595cac612

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22403 · arxiv_version: 2606.22403v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22403 · pith_short_12: 2EBVCA2RT4KD · pith_short_16: 2EBVCA2RT4KDLFEB · pith_short_8: 2EBVCA2R

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/2EBVCA2RT4KDLFEB45WGLPEP6R \
  | 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: d1035103519f14359481e76c65bc8ff4431ace69470a2ddc23ab4e5595cac612

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2270ce03c6966b7f31aa98dbb4a138e63b4ff59506be949bfeae5585448b26bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-21T09:18:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bfdac1983e2239c088ac697a215c7190626e062cdc88453f0aa16bb5b262a91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22403",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}