Pith Number

pith:CJL7W4GN

pith:2017:CJL7W4GNIF757CMPSWTD3TRPFD

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Group Sequential Clinical Trial Designs for Normally Distributed Outcome Variables

Adrian Mander, James Wason, Michael Grayling

arxiv:1710.03127 v2 · 2017-10-09 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CJL7W4GNIF757CMPSWTD3TRPFD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:28.131418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1257fb70cd417fdf898f95a63dce2f28c60bb4eedf4d641e96ea9614b6353d6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03127 · arxiv_version: 1710.03127v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03127 · pith_short_12: CJL7W4GNIF75 · pith_short_16: CJL7W4GNIF757CMP · pith_short_8: CJL7W4GN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CJL7W4GNIF757CMPSWTD3TRPFD \
  | 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: 1257fb70cd417fdf898f95a63dce2f28c60bb4eedf4d641e96ea9614b6353d6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbbb950f928144d97599eaa586c88f7a3233717c9f718ea38b289ae4f125958c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-09T14:51:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85990eddfd9304e6b29bb910e9f91635516c4045b4302ccfb7011f47455098db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}