Pith Number

pith:LVY35RDL

pith:2015:LVY35RDLD37ONJPJR6QNH5OT7W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Bayes with Intractable Likelihood

David J. Nott, Minh-Ngoc Tran, Robert Kohn

arxiv:1503.08621 v2 · 2015-03-30 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVY35RDLD37ONJPJR6QNH5OT7W}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:09:55.371881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d71bec46b1efee6a5e98fa0d3f5d3fd86932dd06ff6aba4fda21f2eea388bce

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.08621 · arxiv_version: 1503.08621v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.08621 · pith_short_12: LVY35RDLD37O · pith_short_16: LVY35RDLD37ONJPJ · pith_short_8: LVY35RDL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LVY35RDLD37ONJPJR6QNH5OT7W \
  | 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: 5d71bec46b1efee6a5e98fa0d3f5d3fd86932dd06ff6aba4fda21f2eea388bce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "572076aa6f5cde7d35cce89239732d9c2d018cbd5833cb1509094d5853dc052c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-30T09:57:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17ce46bb790fd7830ce0157d909d3d3c8ec37e326aff00a0761a4c0add2aa481"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.08621",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}