Pith Number

pith:IMH542CG

pith:2018:IMH542CGH7GVB4ZWOGOKLCI2KW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Regularized Zero-Variance Control Variates

Antonietta Mira, Chris J. Oates, Christopher Drovandi, Leah F. South

arxiv:1811.05073 v6 · 2018-11-13 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMH542CGH7GVB4ZWOGOKLCI2KW}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-05T04:48:32.371276Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

430fde68463fcd50f336719ca5891a55bad737f789b34dbf92fb9256d46bf65b

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.05073 · arxiv_version: 1811.05073v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.05073 · pith_short_12: IMH542CGH7GV · pith_short_16: IMH542CGH7GVB4ZW · pith_short_8: IMH542CG

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/IMH542CGH7GVB4ZWOGOKLCI2KW \
  | 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: 430fde68463fcd50f336719ca5891a55bad737f789b34dbf92fb9256d46bf65b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9ac2de1ed771d38fa7a1a3cd993664be75fe62a42020e03a7704ed0cc6f2d48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-13T02:22:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ff0524ae0a83e551955af3fe3dc96da1d4bf0fc03682363f6f99c0437415b6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.05073",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}