Pith Number

pith:LUPRUUXH

pith:2018:LUPRUUXHUR6JXYOEI2HYYWTSRF

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Why scatter plots suggest causality, and what we can do about it

Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West

arxiv:1809.09328 v1 · 2018-09-25 · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LUPRUUXHUR6JXYOEI2HYYWTSRF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:53.688721Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d1f1a52e7a47c9be1c4468f8c5a728971558387154783b2e1fee202097fabe8

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.09328 · arxiv_version: 1809.09328v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.09328 · pith_short_12: LUPRUUXHUR6J · pith_short_16: LUPRUUXHUR6JXYOE · pith_short_8: LUPRUUXH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LUPRUUXHUR6JXYOEI2HYYWTSRF \
  | 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: 5d1f1a52e7a47c9be1c4468f8c5a728971558387154783b2e1fee202097fabe8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ae3f6f64f319bbc96eecf86a3dc1f03ade9332e35eb26e1a03b81c3ac132782",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-25T05:43:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94a5a36de0ae1835538bf5c43b1c39a74db71e9935acf1c15fc0db204102c69b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.09328",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}