Pith Number

pith:6MWMNPFS

pith:2017:6MWMNPFSS4NLJ2YAUSUZJ7FU5N

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Comparison of Confidence Interval Estimators: an Index Approach

Richard Minkah, Tertius de Wet

arxiv:1702.08572 v3 · 2017-02-27 · stat.ME · stat.CO

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\pithnumber{6MWMNPFSS4NLJ2YAUSUZJ7FU5N}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:50.320884Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f32cc6bcb2971ab4eb00a4a994fcb4eb468c73062a600528ece1f757524544ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08572 · arxiv_version: 1702.08572v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08572 · pith_short_12: 6MWMNPFSS4NL · pith_short_16: 6MWMNPFSS4NLJ2YA · pith_short_8: 6MWMNPFS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6MWMNPFSS4NLJ2YAUSUZJ7FU5N \
  | 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: f32cc6bcb2971ab4eb00a4a994fcb4eb468c73062a600528ece1f757524544ec

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb5fe5062ac988f8f8379db914fbcae34b3f03603a98196ac9edd724acc10e6c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-27T22:52:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7df0470d967a1a5a0d9f4f887c6c818e4a916c90c62840b4aa2d3865f3425225"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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