Pith Number

pith:MENDZ32K

pith:2017:MENDZ32KAGSBFQUCPS5CHKJ5ST

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Variational Bayes Estimation of Discrete-Margined Copula Models with Application to Time Series

Michael Stanley Smith, Ruben Loaiza-Maya

arxiv:1712.09150 v2 · 2017-12-26 · stat.ME · econ.EM · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MENDZ32KAGSBFQUCPS5CHKJ5ST}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:17.141238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

611a3cef4a01a412c2827cba23a93d94e6cba512af420b99dc399291df0d9e41

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09150 · arxiv_version: 1712.09150v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09150 · pith_short_12: MENDZ32KAGSB · pith_short_16: MENDZ32KAGSBFQUC · pith_short_8: MENDZ32K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MENDZ32KAGSBFQUCPS5CHKJ5ST \
  | 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: 611a3cef4a01a412c2827cba23a93d94e6cba512af420b99dc399291df0d9e41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33eb1b1becea68ec96b737438282b4d00cc92477d5552b3fcedff60da119f8d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "econ.EM",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-26T00:38:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50f5e835453b5278b4a3708db46c14d003a7f64150e5778c8594af2e922a830b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}