Pith Number

pith:KMXLMIZP

pith:2021:KMXLMIZPI4TR2G7GQYMUG6HM3O

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A refined continuity correction for the negative binomial distribution and asymptotics of the median

Fr\'ed\'eric Ouimet

arxiv:2103.08846 v2 · 2021-03-16 · math.ST · math.PR · stat.TH

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The mean absolute deviation of the classical discrete distributions: collapse identities, complete asymptotic expansions, and enveloping series

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:42:14.981326Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

532eb6232f47271d1be686194378ecdbafdc4fc56097fd175211adb3acd96ac0

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.08846 · arxiv_version: 2103.08846v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.08846 · pith_short_12: KMXLMIZPI4TR · pith_short_16: KMXLMIZPI4TR2G7G · pith_short_8: KMXLMIZP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KMXLMIZPI4TR2G7GQYMUG6HM3O \
  | 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: 532eb6232f47271d1be686194378ecdbafdc4fc56097fd175211adb3acd96ac0

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a83e138e79ef82c2f9e2474532318e53526617941e441dd91d8b07d1cb57df3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-16T04:25:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4099a23191db185694bd06fdb2e76739b6e2eba1f910f4fc9092a357660e7ad3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.08846",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}