Pith Number

pith:FP7MHZL2

pith:2010:FP7MHZL25T5O6FMBG2PTZYTXJN

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Good, great, or lucky? Screening for firms with sustained superior performance using heavy-tailed priors

James G. Scott, Nicholas G. Polson

arxiv:1010.5223 v3 · 2010-10-25 · stat.ME · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FP7MHZL25T5O6FMBG2PTZYTXJN}

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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	2026-05-18T03:59:36.969369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2bfec3e57aecfaef1581369f3ce2774b685043886f4af129e2e7997e3ab0a54f

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.5223 · arxiv_version: 1010.5223v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.5223 · pith_short_12: FP7MHZL25T5O · pith_short_16: FP7MHZL25T5O6FMB · pith_short_8: FP7MHZL2

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/FP7MHZL25T5O6FMBG2PTZYTXJN \
  | 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: 2bfec3e57aecfaef1581369f3ce2774b685043886f4af129e2e7997e3ab0a54f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d38d5dda1a0262b1ec6a7d5ff40c05454eb4902edd618b307856d88db3635e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-25T19:10:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e77898a1c7e0a6b7a94897ba6fb2ff219fdda3479907e4683623c1ea361c0f78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.5223",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}