Pith Number

pith:6MELOENT

pith:2016:6MELOENTJUATQZAYNZFK555DNL

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Inferring $R_0$ in emerging epidemics - the effect of common population structure is small

Frank Ball, Jacco Wallinga, Jean-St\'ephane Dhersin, Pieter Trapman, Tom Britton, Viet Chi Tran

arxiv:1604.04553 v1 · 2016-04-15 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6MELOENTJUATQZAYNZFK555DNL}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:17:01.894678Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f308b711b34d013864186e4aaef7a36ac44ae27964f70265c6415ea059ff22a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.04553 · arxiv_version: 1604.04553v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.04553 · pith_short_12: 6MELOENTJUAT · pith_short_16: 6MELOENTJUATQZAY · pith_short_8: 6MELOENT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6MELOENTJUATQZAYNZFK555DNL \
  | 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: f308b711b34d013864186e4aaef7a36ac44ae27964f70265c6415ea059ff22a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af353afc47d317c00072337e4707f249bdf42c6eb5d0a12cabd7520d7cb1fd20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-15T16:06:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c88aec452327f8639b604234cf452a218a90b72eebca7850626c446daed727f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.04553",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}