Pith Number

pith:5SRQ4XJW

pith:2018:5SRQ4XJWE67SCNK3JWJFRV66DC

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A Proof of the Front-Door Adjustment Formula

Marco Valtorta, Mohammad Ali Javidian

arxiv:1806.10449 v1 · 2018-06-25 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5SRQ4XJWE67SCNK3JWJFRV66DC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:12.418968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eca30e5d3627bf21355b4d9258d7de18ab4445956d24a229f8b3297485237029

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.10449 · arxiv_version: 1806.10449v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.10449 · pith_short_12: 5SRQ4XJWE67S · pith_short_16: 5SRQ4XJWE67SCNK3 · pith_short_8: 5SRQ4XJW

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/5SRQ4XJWE67SCNK3JWJFRV66DC \
  | 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: eca30e5d3627bf21355b4d9258d7de18ab4445956d24a229f8b3297485237029

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05b5cca399bf4ef6b4531177be0a9a4e8c1b78a7f7f724def159d40cc5346fd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-25T21:01:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f19b38125f287838484979d3ee0b7ec70d3de4ef6e6a88d07826841df6b7283c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.10449",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}