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pith:ID4BR5CT

pith:2019:ID4BR5CTDUVJVDPW2K6AIXSMH3

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Which practical interventions does the do-operator refer to in causal inference? Illustration on the example of obesity and cancer

Lola Etievant, Vivian Viallon

arxiv:1901.00772 v1 · 2019-01-03 · stat.ME

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\pithnumber{ID4BR5CTDUVJVDPW2K6AIXSMH3}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:01.302678Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40f818f4531d2a9a8df6d2bc045e4c3ec7dfca39bf85f8d6e174b9e63cea76c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.00772 · arxiv_version: 1901.00772v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.00772 · pith_short_12: ID4BR5CTDUVJ · pith_short_16: ID4BR5CTDUVJVDPW · pith_short_8: ID4BR5CT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ID4BR5CTDUVJVDPW2K6AIXSMH3 \
  | 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: 40f818f4531d2a9a8df6d2bc045e4c3ec7dfca39bf85f8d6e174b9e63cea76c0

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92c135f9291642de803f9c1e11d2110582ff0640b5f50bb85f1fc3381f4fe2de",
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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-03T14:40:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ade59054f2eb598c23465111b8188041dda411e484a54ac07603468f1b86377f"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}