Pith Number

pith:BVMUCJ5Z

pith:2015:BVMUCJ5ZAG73GSWGPRJLNG6GT7

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Needles and straw in a haystack: robust confidence for possibly sparse sequences

Eduard Belitser, Nurzhan Nurushev

arxiv:1511.01803 v6 · 2015-11-05 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVMUCJ5ZAG73GSWGPRJLNG6GT7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:37.982775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d594127b901bfb34ac67c52b69bc69ffaa48f57a616a5ca17e0d388566cd917

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.01803 · arxiv_version: 1511.01803v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.01803 · pith_short_12: BVMUCJ5ZAG73 · pith_short_16: BVMUCJ5ZAG73GSWG · pith_short_8: BVMUCJ5Z

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/BVMUCJ5ZAG73GSWGPRJLNG6GT7 \
  | 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: 0d594127b901bfb34ac67c52b69bc69ffaa48f57a616a5ca17e0d388566cd917

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed10a8066b16f28adfac99fc5f58e0c0e262646478ef4091b8cfe708976afca4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-05T16:33:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "579ae71fa71fd984cabebcce8f8222063dd20eb6c4f76b0d538bd2c737362eb3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.01803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}