Pith Number

pith:3Z3IJHCP

pith:2016:3Z3IJHCPO2YE622DJ4XLXGX3XZ

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Stochasticity and the limits to confidence when estimating R_0 of Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases

Bradford P Taylor, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S Weitz

arxiv:1601.06829 v1 · 2016-01-21 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3Z3IJHCPO2YE622DJ4XLXGX3XZ}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:21:59.710971Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de76849c4f76b04f6b434f2ebb9afbbe4281271996d0864b429cc80add706aac

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.06829 · arxiv_version: 1601.06829v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.06829 · pith_short_12: 3Z3IJHCPO2YE · pith_short_16: 3Z3IJHCPO2YE622D · pith_short_8: 3Z3IJHCP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3Z3IJHCPO2YE622DJ4XLXGX3XZ \
  | 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: de76849c4f76b04f6b434f2ebb9afbbe4281271996d0864b429cc80add706aac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5e62a4326f9bb90c0345cdb9612c1468a43f5bc09a89b9fe2b9d6339a002953",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-21T21:04:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e9cda55e00654a75bff5647191da81ccebad554daa73185ca29e04543a1d80d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.06829",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}