Pith Number

pith:LMQMKNGA

pith:2012:LMQMKNGATRSF5EYWGEL7VJYDPX

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On the impossibility of constructing good population mean estimators in a realistic Respondent Driven Sampling model

Adityanand Guntuboyina, Robert Heimer, Russell Barbour

arxiv:1209.2072 v2 · 2012-09-10 · stat.ME · stat.AP

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\pithnumber{LMQMKNGATRSF5EYWGEL7VJYDPX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:38:26.819059Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b20c534c09c645e93163117faa7037ddd3c7910725e8fb692ad6773e606a3c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.2072 · arxiv_version: 1209.2072v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.2072 · pith_short_12: LMQMKNGATRSF · pith_short_16: LMQMKNGATRSF5EYW · pith_short_8: LMQMKNGA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LMQMKNGATRSF5EYWGEL7VJYDPX \
  | 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: 5b20c534c09c645e93163117faa7037ddd3c7910725e8fb692ad6773e606a3c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42ab72bced3529cff15fe53b0bbc4e11a43b4f0f3c8ff19aaabb218ff2429b09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-10T17:42:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8f5dbdd9d29591cfb4840f68a399d27f362a71f699c22ca634abcacf4eaf913"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1209.2072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}