Pith Number

pith:IDNDX5TA

pith:2017:IDNDX5TAYEBMJHJFICSWQRN6RT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bridging observational studies and randomized experiments by embedding the former in the latter

Donald B. Rubin, Marie-Abele C. Bind

arxiv:1709.06211 v1 · 2017-09-19 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IDNDX5TAYEBMJHJFICSWQRN6RT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:53.989639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40da3bf660c102c49d2540a56845be8cfa2c38630119219caf5d26e16cf72d84

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06211 · arxiv_version: 1709.06211v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06211 · pith_short_12: IDNDX5TAYEBM · pith_short_16: IDNDX5TAYEBMJHJF · pith_short_8: IDNDX5TA

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/IDNDX5TAYEBMJHJFICSWQRN6RT \
  | 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: 40da3bf660c102c49d2540a56845be8cfa2c38630119219caf5d26e16cf72d84

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d637af0f5a02dc12544e516a563b01ec390c353669fcffc1e01115fcf7ccffe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-19T00:51:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "074e97af02394daecbbe12619559ad36494ab6982666de4313ecf8e6899fba95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.06211",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}