Pith Number

pith:7WR3KKHV

pith:2017:7WR3KKHVY4QRWUES62EPS34PTW

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Computing the quality of the Laplace approximation

Guillaume P. Dehaene

arxiv:1711.08911 v1 · 2017-11-24 · stat.ML · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{7WR3KKHVY4QRWUES62EPS34PTW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:41.752928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fda3b528f5c7211b5092f688f96f8f9db538fdffff7781d491c121bc9ca3b874

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.08911 · arxiv_version: 1711.08911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.08911 · pith_short_12: 7WR3KKHVY4QR · pith_short_16: 7WR3KKHVY4QRWUES · pith_short_8: 7WR3KKHV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7WR3KKHVY4QRWUES62EPS34PTW \
  | 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: fda3b528f5c7211b5092f688f96f8f9db538fdffff7781d491c121bc9ca3b874

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14be2d7c2f92044f095bfb14e0292e47a17da478a9dc96a77446e71b2050d6c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-24T10:10:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15d05aeb98197b55a27dd06479eabffd7dd861361d57e8cfd7efac57070bcc9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.08911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}