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pith:FNUT7AT5

pith:2017:FNUT7AT5HLE5FBMFPLJD3AL6O4

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Spectral backtests of forecast distributions with application to risk management

Alexander J. McNeil, Michael B. Gordy

arxiv:1708.01489 v6 · 2017-08-04 · q-fin.RM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FNUT7AT5HLE5FBMFPLJD3AL6O4}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:27.780611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b693f827d3ac9d285857ad23d817e771e9436e076491735192111c03494f257

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01489 · arxiv_version: 1708.01489v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01489 · pith_short_12: FNUT7AT5HLE5 · pith_short_16: FNUT7AT5HLE5FBMF · pith_short_8: FNUT7AT5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FNUT7AT5HLE5FBMFPLJD3AL6O4 \
  | 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: 2b693f827d3ac9d285857ad23d817e771e9436e076491735192111c03494f257

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59b946554ea1ed5860bf8e12b4b9b38605599f0e06bc9c5bce590b7f6cb112d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.RM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-04T13:31:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b622ea8de5bd1ae55166a211afc6c7ba7e0d00b73b3ae306264c8bcbfd441f72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}