Pith Number

pith:E3BLTMVM

pith:2017:E3BLTMVM6KS3QAD756XV3LCJ5T

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Bounding, an accessible method for estimating principal causal effects, examined and explained

Avi Feller, Jane Furey, Lindsay C. Page, Luke Miratrix, Todd Grindal

arxiv:1701.03139 v2 · 2017-01-11 · stat.ME · stat.AP

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\pithnumber{E3BLTMVM6KS3QAD756XV3LCJ5T}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:37:57.545540Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26c2b9b2acf2a5b8007fefaf5dac49eccdaf83f3228f5f43f91146cb2b2df5f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03139 · arxiv_version: 1701.03139v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03139 · pith_short_12: E3BLTMVM6KS3 · pith_short_16: E3BLTMVM6KS3QAD7 · pith_short_8: E3BLTMVM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E3BLTMVM6KS3QAD756XV3LCJ5T \
  | 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: 26c2b9b2acf2a5b8007fefaf5dac49eccdaf83f3228f5f43f91146cb2b2df5f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae024455f72b7049ad2b5dea3b424da9c1d504e7f775f4f8450492437c16e6ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-11T19:42:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "422ef3bb6a5fa46506084d8ed73ee421171d7aeaaf4734dbf64995c40dac7ffd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}