Pith Number

pith:KPETEDZC

pith:2017:KPETEDZCSPCVBKCI5Q6GHLUQM3

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varbvs: Fast Variable Selection for Large-scale Regression

Matthew Stephens, Peter Carbonetto, Xiang Zhou

arxiv:1709.06597 v1 · 2017-09-19 · stat.CO · q-bio.QM

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\pithnumber{KPETEDZCSPCVBKCI5Q6GHLUQM3}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:34:41.036475Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53c9320f2293c550a848ec3c63ae9066eeee38ba63b14e61c5d4adae83910658

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06597 · arxiv_version: 1709.06597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06597 · pith_short_12: KPETEDZCSPCV · pith_short_16: KPETEDZCSPCVBKCI · pith_short_8: KPETEDZC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KPETEDZCSPCVBKCI5Q6GHLUQM3 \
  | 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: 53c9320f2293c550a848ec3c63ae9066eeee38ba63b14e61c5d4adae83910658

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d473b1303bc6ee6feb8b9e4268198f295e822831a9fcd9d9de7ca7a0058c3e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-19T18:29:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8359a309713f0e3d0ef52883bec115f4a95d049cecf426d799aa7b4c5eaad84c"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1709.06597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}