Pith Number

pith:2VM3GPOM

pith:2018:2VM3GPOMO2IWH6CVBPQYSY22UC

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Random Sampling: Practice Makes Imperfect

Kellie Ottoboni, Philip B. Stark

arxiv:1810.10985 v2 · 2018-10-25 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VM3GPOMO2IWH6CVBPQYSY22UC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:02:15.411259Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d559b33dcc769163f8550be189635aa099c5fab3b9948c2fcf7ed2136512a75e

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.10985 · arxiv_version: 1810.10985v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.10985 · pith_short_12: 2VM3GPOMO2IW · pith_short_16: 2VM3GPOMO2IWH6CV · pith_short_8: 2VM3GPOM

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/2VM3GPOMO2IWH6CVBPQYSY22UC \
  | 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: d559b33dcc769163f8550be189635aa099c5fab3b9948c2fcf7ed2136512a75e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27c350eb527bef19017ae71f15111775ac63912cdd6209bacfa10b45dc1cbe59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-25T17:18:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "980ff67b970b8ebd21bf44a89515525ed7a4baf549e5e394a7e7017afbcaa6be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.10985",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}