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pith:FIFQMUND

pith:2018:FIFQMUNDIEKLIJUTZJ2CV2Y74U

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When Sheep Shop: Measuring Herding Effects in Product Ratings with Natural Experiments

Gael Lederrey, Robert West

arxiv:1802.06578 v2 · 2018-02-19 · cs.CY · cs.SI

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\pithnumber{FIFQMUNDIEKLIJUTZJ2CV2Y74U}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:08.530740Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a0b0651a34114b42693ca742aeb1fe536c47b2e54eeb16a518b589aa550cb6a

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.06578 · arxiv_version: 1802.06578v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.06578 · pith_short_12: FIFQMUNDIEKL · pith_short_16: FIFQMUNDIEKLIJUT · pith_short_8: FIFQMUND

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FIFQMUNDIEKLIJUTZJ2CV2Y74U \
  | 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: 2a0b0651a34114b42693ca742aeb1fe536c47b2e54eeb16a518b589aa550cb6a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fb208e6a25d6fd59e6275b0e8a7ea31c721db91e0699763d268f6e1a24ee088",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-19T10:31:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e45313ff6a41b0b33e2c0acd3f4cae133cada35756cdf23d3e68d32979da9e7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.06578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}