Pith Number

pith:EVQYL5MH

pith:2017:EVQYL5MHA4HXCUQJTL6EN2F2VA

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Bayesian Propensity Scores for High-Dimensional Causal Inference: A Comparison of Drug-Eluting to Bare-Metal Coronary Stents

Jacob Spertus, Sharon-Lise Normand

arxiv:1710.03138 v1 · 2017-10-09 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EVQYL5MHA4HXCUQJTL6EN2F2VA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:26.968254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

256185f587070f7152099afc46e8baa80e9ef8da6fae95e2949f2199d93a2a01

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03138 · arxiv_version: 1710.03138v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03138 · pith_short_12: EVQYL5MHA4HX · pith_short_16: EVQYL5MHA4HXCUQJ · pith_short_8: EVQYL5MH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EVQYL5MHA4HXCUQJTL6EN2F2VA \
  | 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: 256185f587070f7152099afc46e8baa80e9ef8da6fae95e2949f2199d93a2a01

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c35382b8baff99c37562d13519ee8beac63e137c0aac25d72020240669a4a968",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-09T15:07:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf33b2e2b8d66dc89035f1da9938bdf5a90de1262fc0e51ebb7e69050a6b8cb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03138",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}