Pith Number

pith:FCJOD2MP

pith:2017:FCJOD2MPOFYEBAFGRZR2FHNZMY

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Approximating multivariate posterior distribution functions from Monte Carlo samples for sequential Bayesian inference

Bram Thijssen, Lodewyk F.A. Wessels

arxiv:1712.04200 v2 · 2017-12-12 · stat.CO

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\pithnumber{FCJOD2MPOFYEBAFGRZR2FHNZMY}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:42:49.094518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2892e1e98f71704080a68e63a29db96623eb812f86413fd8c81f02206715198f

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04200 · arxiv_version: 1712.04200v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04200 · pith_short_12: FCJOD2MPOFYE · pith_short_16: FCJOD2MPOFYEBAFG · pith_short_8: FCJOD2MP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FCJOD2MPOFYEBAFGRZR2FHNZMY \
  | 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: 2892e1e98f71704080a68e63a29db96623eb812f86413fd8c81f02206715198f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c69154818a9b12009444fe5865a4da3c8589869f15052352ef7bd7b9f1b0de08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T10:09:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "971025067ec5b70f61afc0a32ade9fd4aac34ddea5d4e6b678d705f0b27bd5a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04200",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}