Pith Number

pith:7WSECHGE

pith:2017:7WSECHGECXFNDVNEFUR4FMHJVE

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Why "Redefining Statistical Significance" Will Not Improve Reproducibility and Could Make the Replication Crisis Worse

Harry Crane

arxiv:1711.07801 v1 · 2017-11-21 · stat.AP · stat.ME · stat.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7WSECHGECXFNDVNEFUR4FMHJVE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:56.479024Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fda4411cc415cad1d5a42d23c2b0e9a93b4101a66180b129312e4dd652669a3a

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.07801 · arxiv_version: 1711.07801v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.07801 · pith_short_12: 7WSECHGECXFN · pith_short_16: 7WSECHGECXFNDVNE · pith_short_8: 7WSECHGE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7WSECHGECXFNDVNEFUR4FMHJVE \
  | 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: fda4411cc415cad1d5a42d23c2b0e9a93b4101a66180b129312e4dd652669a3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8f5a3312ea21a14d6edf6776da7f56f71262d9542844dbf00fadc209154a640",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.OT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-21T14:26:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba2a2903f4400d92f7938272bafa945360eb55b906396349720a242dbdacd516"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.07801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}