Pith Number

pith:6SL5WKXV

pith:2017:6SL5WKXV3MCOVDBS3DNRSKNXN6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fast nonparametric near-maximum likelihood estimation of a mixing density

Minwoo Chae, Ryan Martin, Stephen G. Walker

arxiv:1712.03852 v1 · 2017-12-11 · stat.CO · math.ST · stat.TH

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6SL5WKXV3MCOVDBS3DNRSKNXN6}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-17T23:42:08.880133Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f497db2af5db04ea8c32d8db1929b76faa5c9fba8f648e32814b3e7cdd86432a

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03852 · arxiv_version: 1712.03852v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03852 · pith_short_12: 6SL5WKXV3MCO · pith_short_16: 6SL5WKXV3MCOVDBS · pith_short_8: 6SL5WKXV

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/6SL5WKXV3MCOVDBS3DNRSKNXN6 \
  | 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: f497db2af5db04ea8c32d8db1929b76faa5c9fba8f648e32814b3e7cdd86432a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d4c26fe064fd12dc0df0901bf518676a29f86981ac40ca494d978e25739f090",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T15:55:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "319c0df00de57a11fb0846b85fb321cfca29698f7265e42448f03c45e2933430"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}