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pith:2026:LBNBYK5A7WR5ZNAHHSAAH5L4ZQ

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Empirical Bayes Estimation and Inference via Smooth Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood

Bodhisattva Sen, Taehyun Kim

arxiv:2603.27843 v2 · 2026-03-29 · math.ST · stat.ME · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-06-11T01:09:33.935465Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

585a1c2ba0fda3dcb4073c8003f57ccc2c01227ebdbd20bc8b0b322eb2a6eba4

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arxiv: 2603.27843 · arxiv_version: 2603.27843v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.27843 · pith_short_12: LBNBYK5A7WR5 · pith_short_16: LBNBYK5A7WR5ZNAH · pith_short_8: LBNBYK5A

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LBNBYK5A7WR5ZNAHHSAAH5L4ZQ \
  | 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: 585a1c2ba0fda3dcb4073c8003f57ccc2c01227ebdbd20bc8b0b322eb2a6eba4

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
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    "submitted_at": "2026-03-29T19:59:00Z",
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