Pith Number

pith:MEEQDFRC

pith:2015:MEEQDFRCDFEUTHBHEAVZMJN4WK

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Automated Parameter Blocking for Efficient Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Sampling

Christopher J. Paciorek, Clifford Anderson-Bergman, Daniel Turek, Perry de Valpine

arxiv:1503.05621 v1 · 2015-03-19 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEEQDFRCDFEUTHBHEAVZMJN4WK}

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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	2026-05-18T02:20:58.574994Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61090196221949499c27202b9625bcb2b960502bc20883d9a99a5c7e15eb1d61

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.05621 · arxiv_version: 1503.05621v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.05621 · pith_short_12: MEEQDFRCDFEU · pith_short_16: MEEQDFRCDFEUTHBH · pith_short_8: MEEQDFRC

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/MEEQDFRCDFEUTHBHEAVZMJN4WK \
  | 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: 61090196221949499c27202b9625bcb2b960502bc20883d9a99a5c7e15eb1d61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05632e1678a7b95bee9069896f78fbb8bec4d1ee3cea537f8fbd69c0c3669edd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-19T00:20:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e59b9a0e9b29c9edf152d84e629805f4491618769e97b48e0fcf2f9fe315b6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.05621",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}