Pith Number

pith:KPDJ4MS5

pith:2015:KPDJ4MS5GLWDTMUJTKBACZZ6YW

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Optimal approximating Markov chains for Bayesian inference

David Dunson, James E. Johndrow, Jonathan C. Mattingly, Sayan Mukherjee

arxiv:1508.03387 v3 · 2015-08-13 · stat.CO · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KPDJ4MS5GLWDTMUJTKBACZZ6YW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:33.577173Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53c69e325d32ec39b2899a8201673ec5a5071e2fc34cb15595b97267bf7cc7b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03387 · arxiv_version: 1508.03387v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03387 · pith_short_12: KPDJ4MS5GLWD · pith_short_16: KPDJ4MS5GLWDTMUJ · pith_short_8: KPDJ4MS5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KPDJ4MS5GLWDTMUJTKBACZZ6YW \
  | 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: 53c69e325d32ec39b2899a8201673ec5a5071e2fc34cb15595b97267bf7cc7b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "012c50b2488e8cbea93e4139457eaaa17c9dddcb5e5a9adf9e69737ce4772d30",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-13T23:50:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41eca1ef56b3aa1196f50ec634be3deba4e16e84d7988a7c63eb8acf8ab8eaf7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03387",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}