Pith Number

pith:JVAIJQPS

pith:2016:JVAIJQPSEQO24C3HPA2NKBGSKZ

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Bayes estimator for multinomial parameters and Bhattacharyya distances

Christopher Ferrie, Robin Blume-Kohout

arxiv:1612.07946 v1 · 2016-12-23 · math.ST · quant-ph · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{JVAIJQPSEQO24C3HPA2NKBGSKZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:54:05.257876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d4084c1f2241dae0b677834d504d256638720678fe99fb122a2262df2e92507

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.07946 · arxiv_version: 1612.07946v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.07946 · pith_short_12: JVAIJQPSEQO2 · pith_short_16: JVAIJQPSEQO24C3H · pith_short_8: JVAIJQPS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JVAIJQPSEQO24C3HPA2NKBGSKZ \
  | 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: 4d4084c1f2241dae0b677834d504d256638720678fe99fb122a2262df2e92507

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-23T12:02:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c55eaef2f751f9de52c92d6736645e73a4c2c8a6a2b7275d144a1ba649e8784"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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