Pith Number

pith:FKOJ46SB

pith:2014:FKOJ46SBQIHY74K7F3G47SESYV

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Functionals of Discrete Distributions

Jiantao Jiao, Kartik Venkat, Tsachy Weissman, Yanjun Han

arxiv:1406.6959 v7 · 2014-06-26 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{FKOJ46SBQIHY74K7F3G47SESYV}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:38:18.930503Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a9c9e7a41820f8ff15f2ecdcfc892c56a7c3d28b37be2e31aa629aca4de3b8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.6959 · arxiv_version: 1406.6959v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.6959 · pith_short_12: FKOJ46SBQIHY · pith_short_16: FKOJ46SBQIHY74K7 · pith_short_8: FKOJ46SB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FKOJ46SBQIHY74K7F3G47SESYV \
  | 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: 2a9c9e7a41820f8ff15f2ecdcfc892c56a7c3d28b37be2e31aa629aca4de3b8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a406488f3fc3b32fd75c4075d8eb819e26cb3d415b3075182f84a9d68ad87f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-26T17:53:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a5e12eac73d2506c0d25de3499fb7c94e32c664b771ef7e7487029f801abd18"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1406.6959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}