Pith Number

pith:7VRIVQLW

pith:2019:7VRIVQLWK6LK6ZYS3VDAMKLTI7

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Identifying mediating variables with graphical models: an application to the study of causal pathways in people living with HIV

Adrian Dobra, Joachim G. Voss, Katherine Buhikire

arxiv:1907.04838 v1 · 2019-07-10 · stat.AP · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7VRIVQLWK6LK6ZYS3VDAMKLTI7}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:40:56.531275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd628ac1765796af6712dd4606297347e896fcb94749927002772fca551b0d78

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.04838 · arxiv_version: 1907.04838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.04838 · pith_short_12: 7VRIVQLWK6LK · pith_short_16: 7VRIVQLWK6LK6ZYS · pith_short_8: 7VRIVQLW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7VRIVQLWK6LK6ZYS3VDAMKLTI7 \
  | 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: fd628ac1765796af6712dd4606297347e896fcb94749927002772fca551b0d78

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d7b2e9afc572eec2aee25f1cd380f88c65807c976b35a78a46344e91c4f8da5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-10T17:36:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bafcb849eaffd9e75b564941b71abd2b180875062e28ed9516ded9392ea1360"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.04838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}