Pith Number

pith:LVT4LJR5

pith:2018:LVT4LJR5D4BFKBK3TP5PYUAD3E

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Unbiased estimation of log normalizing constants with applications to Bayesian cross-validation

Maxime Rischard, Natesh Pillai, Pierre E. Jacob

arxiv:1810.01382 v1 · 2018-10-02 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\pithnumber{LVT4LJR5D4BFKBK3TP5PYUAD3E}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:04:18.108446Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d67c5a63d1f0255055b9bfafc5003d90cb6c89564ba599a2f735907e64336d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.01382 · arxiv_version: 1810.01382v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.01382 · pith_short_12: LVT4LJR5D4BF · pith_short_16: LVT4LJR5D4BFKBK3 · pith_short_8: LVT4LJR5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LVT4LJR5D4BFKBK3TP5PYUAD3E \
  | 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: 5d67c5a63d1f0255055b9bfafc5003d90cb6c89564ba599a2f735907e64336d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5de574ba0534d3ecb023cb196395e0b955867069af3d3dede16ac497361bc08b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-02T17:26:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec96dae125dc1221b493d83f89d57443cc757d2549007928d2ad6c59e912b9c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.01382",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}