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pith:4DCI63MT

pith:2017:4DCI63MTE5VCWOJDHJ6AJEUIOD

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Estimation of the covariance structure of heavy-tailed distributions

Stanislav Minsker, Xiaohan Wei

arxiv:1708.00502 v3 · 2017-08-01 · math.ST · stat.TH

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e0c48f6d93276a2b39233a7c04928870fdb7a43920e7b41a9f2be83c696e6924

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arxiv: 1708.00502 · arxiv_version: 1708.00502v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00502 · pith_short_12: 4DCI63MTE5VC · pith_short_16: 4DCI63MTE5VCWOJD · pith_short_8: 4DCI63MT

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4DCI63MTE5VCWOJDHJ6AJEUIOD \
  | 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: e0c48f6d93276a2b39233a7c04928870fdb7a43920e7b41a9f2be83c696e6924

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-01T20:30:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab69ccbdd8939ad8f22c05369a87bc09ff9ccfba1b6d5fb8a7c0ea7968670531"
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