Pith Number

pith:CSXZHA2J

pith:2017:CSXZHA2JJZGOP2ISACF74ZNGMV

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Conducting Highly Principled Data Science: A Statistician's Job and Joy

Xiao-Li Meng

arxiv:1712.00544 v2 · 2017-12-02 · stat.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CSXZHA2JJZGOP2ISACF74ZNGMV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:51.330806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14af9383494e4ce7e912008bfe65a665623c1c37f3854bf4f9ee8a098ce0a13d

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00544 · arxiv_version: 1712.00544v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00544 · pith_short_12: CSXZHA2JJZGO · pith_short_16: CSXZHA2JJZGOP2IS · pith_short_8: CSXZHA2J

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/CSXZHA2JJZGOP2ISACF74ZNGMV \
  | 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: 14af9383494e4ce7e912008bfe65a665623c1c37f3854bf4f9ee8a098ce0a13d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a538e5608671c699b0fdf877b4840826dfaa42c3ec6f06ebe77a6d92aed22f25",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-02T04:13:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65def0166657ba86b1618905538c5059d16b9433df5994a7a19b59678b556b44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00544",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}