Pith Number

pith:2QVQ4XN7

pith:2017:2QVQ4XN7IN677AEGZJT2FMKBVU

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Data analysis recipes: Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Daniel Foreman-Mackey (Flatiron) (UW), David W. Hogg (Flatiron) (NYU) (MPIA)

arxiv:1710.06068 v1 · 2017-10-17 · astro-ph.IM · physics.data-an · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2QVQ4XN7IN677AEGZJT2FMKBVU}

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4 Citations open

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:20.533265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d42b0e5dbf437dff8086ca67a2b141ad27556f9f890ef6251f519d40dab091bf

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06068 · arxiv_version: 1710.06068v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06068 · pith_short_12: 2QVQ4XN7IN67 · pith_short_16: 2QVQ4XN7IN677AEG · pith_short_8: 2QVQ4XN7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2QVQ4XN7IN677AEGZJT2FMKBVU \
  | 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: d42b0e5dbf437dff8086ca67a2b141ad27556f9f890ef6251f519d40dab091bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d05e4b92ed5bfd58d2d57fb4fad0bbabec9ddf7dba432958bda40ef314cfacd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-17T03:03:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "294c5e00005a5086aefcc4785a153aff9fa90dbb18f903a3a05ae246a7bd8689"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.06068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}