Pith Number

pith:2EMZZR6B

pith:2015:2EMZZR6BNLIGQZTLVCF3NJ33GJ

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Statistically efficient thinning of a Markov chain sampler

Art B. Owen

arxiv:1510.07727 v7 · 2015-10-27 · stat.CO · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{2EMZZR6BNLIGQZTLVCF3NJ33GJ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:43.086741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1199cc7c16ad068666ba88bb6a77b32432ba5b87fea5b7beb2b044bc5bda4b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.07727 · arxiv_version: 1510.07727v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.07727 · pith_short_12: 2EMZZR6BNLIG · pith_short_16: 2EMZZR6BNLIGQZTL · pith_short_8: 2EMZZR6B

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2EMZZR6BNLIGQZTLVCF3NJ33GJ \
  | 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: d1199cc7c16ad068666ba88bb6a77b32432ba5b87fea5b7beb2b044bc5bda4b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3cb65a6dba21ba40e8ebe50db663342c92faca100f46e4353e92e072a53b40fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-27T00:00:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43d33c7aa91d6d2400c6effa9c65a711e0a6919f7aa028dc27ef332f40d86df3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.07727",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}