Pith Number

pith:IRMIUO74

pith:2016:IRMIUO74H4L3K35HDORMH2Z3Y3

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An algorithm for approximating the second moment of the normalizing constant estimate from a particle filter

Nick Whiteley, Svetoslav Kostov

arxiv:1602.02279 v2 · 2016-02-06 · stat.ME · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IRMIUO74H4L3K35HDORMH2Z3Y3}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:32.375190Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44588a3bfc3f17b56fa71ba2c3eb3bc6caf748352bbe1c126a1b1e3979064ba6

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02279 · arxiv_version: 1602.02279v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02279 · pith_short_12: IRMIUO74H4L3 · pith_short_16: IRMIUO74H4L3K35H · pith_short_8: IRMIUO74

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IRMIUO74H4L3K35HDORMH2Z3Y3 \
  | 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: 44588a3bfc3f17b56fa71ba2c3eb3bc6caf748352bbe1c126a1b1e3979064ba6

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-06T17:01:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3adeab56c05b3cbe06d7881fa902db14b07e295d7621ffec175282ed62e7ff8f"
  },
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  }
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