Pith Number

pith:EMWA4LJU

pith:2016:EMWA4LJUK4P3BTFOQ44VAZDOGX

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Yule's "Nonsense Correlation" Solved!

Abraham Wyner, Larry Shepp, Philip Ernst

arxiv:1608.04120 v2 · 2016-08-14 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EMWA4LJUK4P3BTFOQ44VAZDOGX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:20.117938Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

232c0e2d34571fb0ccae873950646e35ed9e52868a0b273d09d413e0a9e032c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.04120 · arxiv_version: 1608.04120v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.04120 · pith_short_12: EMWA4LJUK4P3 · pith_short_16: EMWA4LJUK4P3BTFO · pith_short_8: EMWA4LJU

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/EMWA4LJUK4P3BTFOQ44VAZDOGX \
  | 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: 232c0e2d34571fb0ccae873950646e35ed9e52868a0b273d09d413e0a9e032c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "085c4a9afcdda79619a889aee565e96946d07a933a01cbbb564c852f889d87f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-14T17:46:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d66e37009fc4a75d8999539f8d9f3190401ec371196d108c4d80af74dd02ceec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.04120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}