Pith Number

pith:LTQLB4CP

pith:2016:LTQLB4CPCVI7DX5V3ZIASU52A5

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Reconciling forecasts of infant mortality rates at national and sub-national levels: Grouped time-series methods

Han Lin Shang

arxiv:1608.08718 v1 · 2016-08-31 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LTQLB4CPCVI7DX5V3ZIASU52A5}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:06:40.108795Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ce0b0f04f1551f1dfb5de500953ba0770042f9404861280a725d965464d3dba

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08718 · arxiv_version: 1608.08718v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08718 · pith_short_12: LTQLB4CPCVI7 · pith_short_16: LTQLB4CPCVI7DX5V · pith_short_8: LTQLB4CP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LTQLB4CPCVI7DX5V3ZIASU52A5 \
  | 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: 5ce0b0f04f1551f1dfb5de500953ba0770042f9404861280a725d965464d3dba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9bd4641ce07775f5a799056dd32e2b0786eea3a28807151ce31e498d9ed6982",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-31T03:23:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "864c33e9f65630a5ba690324e1ce38d63af26c4e0e3878c6e5e983c7018f02d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08718",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}