Pith Number

pith:6PW6HBI2

pith:2011:6PW6HBI2WINNUH577FVI6OQHQ3

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A Random Walk with Drift: Interview with Peter J. Bickel

Ya'acov Ritov

arxiv:1106.2881 v1 · 2011-06-15 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6PW6HBI2WINNUH577FVI6OQHQ3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:55.412752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3ede3851ab21ada1fbff96a8f3a0786c066e3abbd3b5d46dc381aaf45cb4ba6

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.2881 · arxiv_version: 1106.2881v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.2881 · pith_short_12: 6PW6HBI2WINN · pith_short_16: 6PW6HBI2WINNUH57 · pith_short_8: 6PW6HBI2

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/6PW6HBI2WINNUH577FVI6OQHQ3 \
  | 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: f3ede3851ab21ada1fbff96a8f3a0786c066e3abbd3b5d46dc381aaf45cb4ba6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "275059c04dafa218cf51dec6dab5ae479e298ef4e2b5b098fbbd4286d1a875c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-15T05:57:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5de35054bc8dc74c6743eb0778214a48893f82aab6230e69eab1d23aefc86eba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.2881",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}