Pith Number

pith:5HG4UUQH

pith:2012:5HG4UUQHUCZLFYKBJNVJ26TVBE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reversing the Stein Effect

Michael D. Perlman, Sanjay Chaudhuri

arxiv:1203.5626 v1 · 2012-03-26 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5HG4UUQHUCZLFYKBJNVJ26TVBE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:59:14.587077Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9cdca5207a0b2b2e1414b6a9d7a75092920e50640a447a38e613b5911248382

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.5626 · arxiv_version: 1203.5626v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.5626 · pith_short_12: 5HG4UUQHUCZL · pith_short_16: 5HG4UUQHUCZLFYKB · pith_short_8: 5HG4UUQH

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/5HG4UUQHUCZLFYKBJNVJ26TVBE \
  | 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: e9cdca5207a0b2b2e1414b6a9d7a75092920e50640a447a38e613b5911248382

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf81faf6fb48c073b08af8839402c84f852bb901806d9a1f5f886578ff18eef4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-26T11:01:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1fd4506a998d5e3825cab52a3ba37c59e0cbb5a6e19c06ebee5d951f8e09a0c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.5626",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}