Pith Number

pith:7KKB2WTM

pith:2010:7KKB2WTMZL3MY6M3JJOOVQOALK

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On Estimating the Ability of NBA Players

Benjamin M. Taylor, Paul Fearnhead

arxiv:1008.0705 v1 · 2010-08-04 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7KKB2WTMZL3MY6M3JJOOVQOALK}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:42:35.826372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa941d5a6ccaf6cc799b4a5ceac1c05a81ba946d7c30a56bbef436a284243a93

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.0705 · arxiv_version: 1008.0705v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.0705 · pith_short_12: 7KKB2WTMZL3M · pith_short_16: 7KKB2WTMZL3MY6M3 · pith_short_8: 7KKB2WTM

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/7KKB2WTMZL3MY6M3JJOOVQOALK \
  | 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: fa941d5a6ccaf6cc799b4a5ceac1c05a81ba946d7c30a56bbef436a284243a93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e3f9b22594bc4535e72f1a7c6b54748f40ae2cbb8365904fa954545195bfbc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-04T05:54:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2eb6a422d7516c1884898e085ead08f50f4e51e85ffb09a68ca94ffa1be317e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.0705",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}