Pith Number

pith:5W3GLXA2

pith:2016:5W3GLXA2KP2ZDNWGTFLTNQIP6Y

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Mean likelihood estimators

Benoit Quenneville, Ian McLeod

arxiv:1611.00884 v1 · 2016-11-03 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5W3GLXA2KP2ZDNWGTFLTNQIP6Y}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:00:18.388448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edb665dc1a53f591b6c6995736c10ff61e5b3b9c9b5e541bc7f79d54141c635e

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.00884 · arxiv_version: 1611.00884v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.00884 · pith_short_12: 5W3GLXA2KP2Z · pith_short_16: 5W3GLXA2KP2ZDNWG · pith_short_8: 5W3GLXA2

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/5W3GLXA2KP2ZDNWGTFLTNQIP6Y \
  | 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: edb665dc1a53f591b6c6995736c10ff61e5b3b9c9b5e541bc7f79d54141c635e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61a874366dbaa2389d93698189826b047093d1df987bd22794b6b5bb0a76e998",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-03T05:03:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d41b4133db5d6f2113729eadf44cab2f069ab961e65322e05935a55f35271562"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.00884",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}