Pith Number

pith:6RSPHB3A

pith:2016:6RSPHB3AVAWOYK5EWYJBHIZGZS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Importance Sampling and Necessary Sample Size: an Information Theory Approach

Daniel Sanz-Alonso

arxiv:1608.08814 v1 · 2016-08-31 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6RSPHB3AVAWOYK5EWYJBHIZGZS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:39.834506Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f464f38760a82cec2ba4b61213a326cc815f56d1bf8c112ef97e0715cdaf1cf6

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08814 · arxiv_version: 1608.08814v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08814 · pith_short_12: 6RSPHB3AVAWO · pith_short_16: 6RSPHB3AVAWOYK5E · pith_short_8: 6RSPHB3A

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/6RSPHB3AVAWOYK5EWYJBHIZGZS \
  | 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: f464f38760a82cec2ba4b61213a326cc815f56d1bf8c112ef97e0715cdaf1cf6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31319134705a58dc4404bed262327a36f8679928880b50f33c5811d61a8fd74c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-31T12:06:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab2b31c57b4d79d5fb558b609255a9e3cc47ed2b53f9a0d581e3aa598e8052a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08814",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}