Pith Number

pith:DYW54GED

pith:2018:DYW54GEDZA4DERQTZWXZBZML3E

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Estimating the Mean and Variance of a High-dimensional Normal Distribution Using a Mixture Prior

Jeffrey D. Hart, Shyamalendu Sinha

arxiv:1811.06601 v1 · 2018-11-15 · stat.ME · stat.CO

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\pithnumber{DYW54GEDZA4DERQTZWXZBZML3E}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:47:02.516772Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1e2dde1883c838324613cdaf90e58bd9003b552e3b02506f935aabe1399472c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.06601 · arxiv_version: 1811.06601v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.06601 · pith_short_12: DYW54GEDZA4D · pith_short_16: DYW54GEDZA4DERQT · pith_short_8: DYW54GED

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DYW54GEDZA4DERQTZWXZBZML3E \
  | 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: 1e2dde1883c838324613cdaf90e58bd9003b552e3b02506f935aabe1399472c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18894400960809f293ef2dce2cea7b97dac442a3b0b8330a1fd706233f63eb39",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-15T21:49:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70c5599194a3659ef184b0b8e3daf972f8e76d236d8673d928cf50f996bf7045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.06601",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}