Pith Number

pith:AIMC56I5

pith:2012:AIMC56I5SD3GJABAKPNQWF244X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Geometrical Explanation of Stein Shrinkage

Lawrence D. Brown, Linda H. Zhao

arxiv:1203.4737 v1 · 2012-03-21 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AIMC56I5SD3GJABAKPNQWF244X}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:59:37.302258Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02182ef91d90f664802053db0b175ce5deaf45b28227ec9a72eab9e1c63bd0e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4737 · arxiv_version: 1203.4737v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4737 · pith_short_12: AIMC56I5SD3G · pith_short_16: AIMC56I5SD3GJABA · pith_short_8: AIMC56I5

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/AIMC56I5SD3GJABAKPNQWF244X \
  | 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: 02182ef91d90f664802053db0b175ce5deaf45b28227ec9a72eab9e1c63bd0e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cab15f716881beda7ee27eaf7a28e07f7da6eb3c7317c85610e242ebfe9bfd45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-21T14:00:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5c210c7935d8de9f224df18399b924ddb15f6bbb9889ed34e5d32f793f2b43a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4737",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}