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pith:3DDC2ISQ

pith:2024:3DDC2ISQ2LI47AF5NGFYL6SU5N

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Rethinking Mean Square Error: Why Information is a Superior Assessment of Estimators

Paul W. Vos

arxiv:2412.08475 v2 · 2024-12-11 · math.ST · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:51:19.815676Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8c62d2250d2d1cf80bd698b85fa54eb733ef29325576aff812c1debf9d748b4

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arxiv: 2412.08475 · arxiv_version: 2412.08475v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.08475 · pith_short_12: 3DDC2ISQ2LI4 · pith_short_16: 3DDC2ISQ2LI47AF5 · pith_short_8: 3DDC2ISQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3DDC2ISQ2LI47AF5NGFYL6SU5N \
  | 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: d8c62d2250d2d1cf80bd698b85fa54eb733ef29325576aff812c1debf9d748b4

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
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    "title_canon_sha256": "0a4d6c0e7317394fe595e3813a202123d392b0dabed12810b5212272957f821e"
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  }
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