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pith:FIEHG5FI

pith:2018:FIEHG5FI5RO476UDHPSNGW6J6E

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Higher Moment Estimation for Elliptically-distributed Data: Is it Necessary to Use a Sledgehammer to Crack an Egg?

Jianqing Fan, Koushiki Bose, Zheng Tracy Ke

arxiv:1812.05697 v1 · 2018-12-13 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FIEHG5FI5RO476UDHPSNGW6J6E}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:18.504097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a087374a8ec5dcffa833be4d35bc9f119b9593fab0fd71da255d61b2b9565b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.05697 · arxiv_version: 1812.05697v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05697 · pith_short_12: FIEHG5FI5RO4 · pith_short_16: FIEHG5FI5RO476UD · pith_short_8: FIEHG5FI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FIEHG5FI5RO476UDHPSNGW6J6E \
  | 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: 2a087374a8ec5dcffa833be4d35bc9f119b9593fab0fd71da255d61b2b9565b5

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "450fa1741f1919f3110c4c0bcbf1c8697ed01cd230c99a503d11c03b389f375e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-13T21:31:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "026ff8c82bd2d5b35e984eb178bc97ce317aef14352bcc0489e449fababe56b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.05697",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}