Pith Number

pith:5J7WM665

pith:2024:5J7WM665CUKWXY3BT76PCFKY36

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The ultimate issue error in scientific inference: mistaking parameters for hypotheses

Stanley E. Lazic

arxiv:2411.15398 v2 · 2024-11-23 · stat.ME · q-bio.QM · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5J7WM665CUKWXY3BT76PCFKY36}

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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	2026-07-05T09:56:56.787545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea7f667bdd15156be3619ffcf11558dfa1bfc1d994944ff7db5f19d42fccf3cd

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.15398 · arxiv_version: 2411.15398v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.15398 · pith_short_12: 5J7WM665CUKW · pith_short_16: 5J7WM665CUKWXY3B · pith_short_8: 5J7WM665

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/5J7WM665CUKWXY3BT76PCFKY36 \
  | 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: ea7f667bdd15156be3619ffcf11558dfa1bfc1d994944ff7db5f19d42fccf3cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8da1e9958c5f3203dbaaefbfb87cff49aea0a5349c44d6f950d1d9accc5daa96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-23T00:47:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "233e4a7c3971b14d1d046d39c48ebc935eea83181acfdd5ba6db8c5843954833"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.15398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}