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pith:JO54YLQI

pith:2018:JO54YLQINYA6LKBBYW23VRHWBQ

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On a Loss-based prior for the number of components in mixture models

Brunero Liseo, Clara Grazian, Cristiano Villa

arxiv:1807.07874 v2 · 2018-07-20 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JO54YLQINYA6LKBBYW23VRHWBQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:37.429788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4bbbcc2e086e01e5a821c5b5bac4f60c22f199174708c7ad465cf36b8c3814c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.07874 · arxiv_version: 1807.07874v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.07874 · pith_short_12: JO54YLQINYA6 · pith_short_16: JO54YLQINYA6LKBB · pith_short_8: JO54YLQI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JO54YLQINYA6LKBBYW23VRHWBQ \
  | 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: 4bbbcc2e086e01e5a821c5b5bac4f60c22f199174708c7ad465cf36b8c3814c9

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3222e417ff8afe497fdd3baf0653fcd6d2206723a165b944d51ff76148847637",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-20T14:41:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cf800f1bf6f250f5c7414be0b02048e44766dd6f98c1477d249818c59d3cc2e"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}