Pith Number

pith:47ZTTBSU

pith:2011:47ZTTBSUJSY7TCEXBXU6ZDMGAR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is Bayes Posterior just Quick and Dirty Confidence?

D. A. S. Fraser

arxiv:1112.5582 v1 · 2011-12-23 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{47ZTTBSUJSY7TCEXBXU6ZDMGAR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:05:46.485571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7f33986544cb1f988970de9ec8d8604577a4a4a2c5f899e8611db46f9d539d0

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.5582 · arxiv_version: 1112.5582v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.5582 · pith_short_12: 47ZTTBSUJSY7 · pith_short_16: 47ZTTBSUJSY7TCEX · pith_short_8: 47ZTTBSU

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/47ZTTBSUJSY7TCEXBXU6ZDMGAR \
  | 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: e7f33986544cb1f988970de9ec8d8604577a4a4a2c5f899e8611db46f9d539d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "158dcdf51f2f882b98c0d8a367ec86404748e8f7b4ced40dc3a4129d513a4dbf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-23T13:28:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cd16e520697178aa874d664f5762ca2f15dd35b907731deb6f8f5a1a8041e39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.5582",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}