Pith Number

pith:I2VULIIA

pith:2014:I2VULIIA654NIE74Y2CENIYFZM

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The Horseshoe Estimator: Posterior Concentration around Nearly Black Vectors

A. W. van der Vaart, B. J. K. Kleijn, S. L. van der Pas

arxiv:1404.0202 v2 · 2014-04-01 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{I2VULIIA654NIE74Y2CENIYFZM}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:31:21.205719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46ab45a100f778d413fcc68446a305cb3e69389958ecf68c7672461c29ed748d

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.0202 · arxiv_version: 1404.0202v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.0202 · pith_short_12: I2VULIIA654N · pith_short_16: I2VULIIA654NIE74 · pith_short_8: I2VULIIA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I2VULIIA654NIE74Y2CENIYFZM \
  | 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: 46ab45a100f778d413fcc68446a305cb3e69389958ecf68c7672461c29ed748d

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "291472abc12de54c1d5512f138dbef607340b39f94c6a88632939b09721fbbd0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-01T11:34:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51881bcfa9c956a69ae19ad015d7e65851a4af0191685f0c9beb9835a5f04ea2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.0202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}