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pith:7FS2MFWV

pith:2017:7FS2MFWVUA7JDTK42CGLUTB4BX

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An Empirical Bayes Approach to Regularization Using Previously Published Models

Brett Kroncke, Derek K Smith, Frederic T Billings, Jeffrey Blume, Jens Meiler, Loren E Smith

arxiv:1710.03866 v1 · 2017-10-11 · stat.AP

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\pithnumber{7FS2MFWVUA7JDTK42CGLUTB4BX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:05.790859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f965a616d5a03e91cd5cd08cba4c3c0de5cf4809c061c92255323c7a0f4a07f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03866 · arxiv_version: 1710.03866v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03866 · pith_short_12: 7FS2MFWVUA7J · pith_short_16: 7FS2MFWVUA7JDTK4 · pith_short_8: 7FS2MFWV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7FS2MFWVUA7JDTK42CGLUTB4BX \
  | 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: f965a616d5a03e91cd5cd08cba4c3c0de5cf4809c061c92255323c7a0f4a07f3

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1863900027089bfa9033803f074cfe5b088f3a66adef5a60b40f1cb08941f7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-11T00:41:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddfdec2a60284e0442be9346f8bf97168fb76afc0b246324e67b021f82fd5156"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}