Pith Number

pith:J3NAKJ67

pith:2014:J3NAKJ67ZAVWDPP7CFGQ3PLXHQ

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Maximizing the expected range from dependent observations under mean-variance information

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arxiv:1405.6884 v2 · 2014-05-27 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J3NAKJ67ZAVWDPP7CFGQ3PLXHQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:04.681815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4eda0527dfc82b61bdff114d0dbd773c3ddf407a71245f909b1ad62a3d21e3ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.6884 · arxiv_version: 1405.6884v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.6884 · pith_short_12: J3NAKJ67ZAVW · pith_short_16: J3NAKJ67ZAVWDPP7 · pith_short_8: J3NAKJ67

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/J3NAKJ67ZAVWDPP7CFGQ3PLXHQ \
  | 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: 4eda0527dfc82b61bdff114d0dbd773c3ddf407a71245f909b1ad62a3d21e3ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a21b0d9eda24716d0237483a76b4260d8c0ede04311e37c5d501e32cf1f034a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-27T12:27:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4b958e163a7f0c9efc0376044489adae478741edefcc8b7a34d6d608be71aa6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.6884",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}