Pith Number

pith:H53G5VMX

pith:2018:H53G5VMX2KA5L6GCATYF5V566H

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Estimation in emerging epidemics: biases and remedies

Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Tom Britton

arxiv:1803.01688 v1 · 2018-03-05 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H53G5VMX2KA5L6GCATYF5V566H}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:59.827772Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f766ed597d281d5f8c204f05ed7bef1c9e0b1a916acd1e8c56c2b898b7b88a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.01688 · arxiv_version: 1803.01688v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.01688 · pith_short_12: H53G5VMX2KA5 · pith_short_16: H53G5VMX2KA5L6GC · pith_short_8: H53G5VMX

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/H53G5VMX2KA5L6GCATYF5V566H \
  | 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: 3f766ed597d281d5f8c204f05ed7bef1c9e0b1a916acd1e8c56c2b898b7b88a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f4eaf65536cb2ff69eb7e80898cee60e41ac1b21f12507cd5f762d611d4ede4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-05T14:45:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "182340b70810e67d5cb6aea1c94d5f7d35d9d44b6863f8bf2d4704e15967324c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.01688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}