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pith:2016:3F3VFTBTAZW2GZ74ZC6DPKSENJ
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Equivalence between direct and indirect effects with different sets of intermediate variables and covariates

Manabu Kuroki

arxiv:1601.01170 v1 · 2016-01-06 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Canonical hash

d97752cc33066da367fcc8bc37aa446a6e7832b00871ef74e0b47819f1fec45d

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arxiv: 1601.01170 · arxiv_version: 1601.01170v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.01170 · pith_short_12: 3F3VFTBTAZW2 · pith_short_16: 3F3VFTBTAZW2GZ74 · pith_short_8: 3F3VFTBT
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3F3VFTBTAZW2GZ74ZC6DPKSENJ \
  | 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: d97752cc33066da367fcc8bc37aa446a6e7832b00871ef74e0b47819f1fec45d
Canonical record JSON
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