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pith:2016:B5OY325OIYSWUJZTF3ZJIIXDG6

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Analysis of k-Nearest Neighbor Distances with Application to Entropy Estimation

Barnab\'as P\'oczos, Shashank Singh

arxiv:1603.08578 v2 · 2016-03-28 · math.ST · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML · stat.TH

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0f5d8debae46256a27332ef29422e3379577e9be550703a124059d1d1100d70f

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arxiv: 1603.08578 · arxiv_version: 1603.08578v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.08578 · pith_short_12: B5OY325OIYSW · pith_short_16: B5OY325OIYSWUJZT · pith_short_8: B5OY325O

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B5OY325OIYSWUJZTF3ZJIIXDG6 \
  | 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())"
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    "submitted_at": "2016-03-28T22:14:18Z",
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