Pith Number

pith:6PO32W5S

pith:2017:6PO32W5SFJWYNSY23P4ISKQDVO

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Practical Bayesian Inference for Record Linkage

Brendan S. McVeigh, Jared S. Murray

arxiv:1710.10558 v2 · 2017-10-29 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6PO32W5SFJWYNSY23P4ISKQDVO}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:29:05.415732Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3ddbd5bb22a6d86cb1adbf8892a03ab9cb4be3470acba60ca2a25968cd3b1dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.10558 · arxiv_version: 1710.10558v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.10558 · pith_short_12: 6PO32W5SFJWY · pith_short_16: 6PO32W5SFJWYNSY2 · pith_short_8: 6PO32W5S

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/6PO32W5SFJWYNSY23P4ISKQDVO \
  | 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: f3ddbd5bb22a6d86cb1adbf8892a03ab9cb4be3470acba60ca2a25968cd3b1dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "268959df4f92b11101335cde6a3e114eebfda53c511eeec851ca80fb659dfb3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-29T03:41:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3f6c0ec37ff708c72ee24ede47982b541299f1bf21cd7fbebe0642c0b745d30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.10558",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}