Pith Number

pith:B4RKXIRN

pith:2021:B4RKXIRN5NQPETQ6U2UKBMOYCZ

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How Misuse of Statistics Can Spread Misinformation: A Study of Misrepresentation of COVID-19 Data

Rahul Batra, Shailesh Bharati

arxiv:2102.07198 v1 · 2021-02-14 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4RKXIRN5NQPETQ6U2UKBMOYCZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:15:02.429247Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f22aba22deb60f24e1ea6a8a0b1d816716e2116d38c24499a4185ec61591ab8

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.07198 · arxiv_version: 2102.07198v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.07198 · pith_short_12: B4RKXIRN5NQP · pith_short_16: B4RKXIRN5NQPETQ6 · pith_short_8: B4RKXIRN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B4RKXIRN5NQPETQ6U2UKBMOYCZ \
  | 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: 0f22aba22deb60f24e1ea6a8a0b1d816716e2116d38c24499a4185ec61591ab8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcb95ef082cb0b8dec6ba6d43d067c4126a9adecebccba8da677ee2b2d56e649",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-14T17:09:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ec750d99763fc0eff90f0b5946f67789e06f179a1c9c1d1f7883a16b83223c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.07198",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}