Pith Number

pith:4STB57VR

pith:2012:4STB57VRXDLXVA3TQTZ24BVYEH

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Stein Estimation for Spherically Symmetric Distributions: Recent Developments

Ann Cohen Brandwein, William E. Strawderman

arxiv:1203.4724 v1 · 2012-03-21 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4STB57VRXDLXVA3TQTZ24BVYEH}

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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	2026-05-18T03:59:37.358310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4a61efeb1b8d77a837384f3ae06b821c01d9a229949ee20a4bf257f5ea13d39

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4724 · arxiv_version: 1203.4724v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4724 · pith_short_12: 4STB57VRXDLX · pith_short_16: 4STB57VRXDLXVA3T · pith_short_8: 4STB57VR

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/4STB57VRXDLXVA3TQTZ24BVYEH \
  | 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: e4a61efeb1b8d77a837384f3ae06b821c01d9a229949ee20a4bf257f5ea13d39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d12669c7a6e32286b18744f99f22b6de40db33ec96c678c271494a500f9661b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-21T12:52:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33082e23a5dc76de96b7fc931f2ff00159b8248fab1968715324f203d39c3b2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4724",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}