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pith:7HB5BVNF

pith:2018:7HB5BVNFGN2L6NIQFOLGK7HRM3

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Selection of proposal distributions for multiple importance sampling

Evangelos Evangelou, Vivekananda Roy

arxiv:1805.00829 v4 · 2018-05-02 · stat.ME

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Revisiting the balance heuristic for estimating normalising constants

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:15:26.318456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

f9c3d0d5a53374bf35102b96657cf166c3835701185ba2ebda7715110920479c

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arxiv: 1805.00829 · arxiv_version: 1805.00829v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.00829 · pith_short_12: 7HB5BVNFGN2L · pith_short_16: 7HB5BVNFGN2L6NIQ · pith_short_8: 7HB5BVNF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7HB5BVNFGN2L6NIQFOLGK7HRM3 \
  | 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: f9c3d0d5a53374bf35102b96657cf166c3835701185ba2ebda7715110920479c

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
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