Pith Number

pith:FODQZNUZ

pith:2011:FODQZNUZHZFK74R3YVGIZZ43PT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Concept of Snowball Sampling

Krista J. Gile, Mark S. Handcock

arxiv:1108.0301 v1 · 2011-08-01 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FODQZNUZHZFK74R3YVGIZZ43PT}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:16:31.308007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b870cb6993e4aaff23bc54c8ce79b7cdc677ff61bf564289b9e7c1b35563d1a

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.0301 · arxiv_version: 1108.0301v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.0301 · pith_short_12: FODQZNUZHZFK · pith_short_16: FODQZNUZHZFK74R3 · pith_short_8: FODQZNUZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FODQZNUZHZFK74R3YVGIZZ43PT \
  | 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: 2b870cb6993e4aaff23bc54c8ce79b7cdc677ff61bf564289b9e7c1b35563d1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c66206bc298be97b338b04694a315634aa6beb6f66093fcba23edcb22212bc76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-01T12:51:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a29016010b026bef724f5241f686b0354e66365b6446fede7715fb0f4b0c8da5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.0301",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}