Pith Number

pith:5PLJ7UXK

pith:2016:5PLJ7UXKLDCFGOOO5NBSOIHDHQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Continuous Monitoring of A/B Tests without Pain: Optional Stopping in Bayesian Testing

Alex Deng, Jiannan Lu, Shouyuan Chen

arxiv:1602.05549 v1 · 2016-02-17 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PLJ7UXKLDCFGOOO5NBSOIHDHQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:26.898429Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebd69fd2ea58c45339ceeb432720e33c1e61f877629f2cab298cf01c4ce36057

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.05549 · arxiv_version: 1602.05549v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.05549 · pith_short_12: 5PLJ7UXKLDCF · pith_short_16: 5PLJ7UXKLDCFGOOO · pith_short_8: 5PLJ7UXK

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/5PLJ7UXKLDCFGOOO5NBSOIHDHQ \
  | 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: ebd69fd2ea58c45339ceeb432720e33c1e61f877629f2cab298cf01c4ce36057

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12119c7c8954488208e01bb742b0e5fbc8bc903bc7d4eeafeae64d406892b873",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-17T19:51:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd443e3a94d9b7ae457493f117972040fb9a825faf571e90a7a629f82592399d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.05549",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}