Pith Number

pith:MUGXVQFX

pith:2016:MUGXVQFXL6EHTEGGH7BO2ITL6Q

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Gaussian Process Models for Mortality Rates and Improvement Factors

Howard Zail, Jimmy Risk, Mike Ludkovski

arxiv:1608.08291 v3 · 2016-08-30 · stat.ME · stat.AP · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUGXVQFXL6EHTEGGH7BO2ITL6Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:41.688637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

650d7ac0b75f887990c63fc2ed226bf40040f600d2dc6938ff72596eebe9e9ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.08291 · arxiv_version: 1608.08291v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.08291 · pith_short_12: MUGXVQFXL6EH · pith_short_16: MUGXVQFXL6EHTEGG · pith_short_8: MUGXVQFX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MUGXVQFXL6EHTEGGH7BO2ITL6Q \
  | 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: 650d7ac0b75f887990c63fc2ed226bf40040f600d2dc6938ff72596eebe9e9ab

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0121863a060ea58caaf27e0668a663c694f991b849e4ed89cedbc361c6778864",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-30T00:55:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75a052617f7b9549451657a43b119579c91c17d31f4a29fcfbc09894a157289f"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1608.08291",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}