Pith Number

pith:MUZ2ZMEA

pith:2012:MUZ2ZMEAMNRBJWX2CGUEDHXDY4

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Asymptotic normality and valid inference for Gaussian variational approximation

M. P. Wand, Peter Hall, S. S. J. Wang, Tung Pham

arxiv:1202.5183 v1 · 2012-02-23 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUZ2ZMEAMNRBJWX2CGUEDHXDY4}

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:38.776391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6533acb080636214dafa11a8419ee3c7013d5b786ffba19e3deccdcf3e1e44ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.5183 · arxiv_version: 1202.5183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.5183 · pith_short_12: MUZ2ZMEAMNRB · pith_short_16: MUZ2ZMEAMNRBJWX2 · pith_short_8: MUZ2ZMEA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MUZ2ZMEAMNRBJWX2CGUEDHXDY4 \
  | 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: 6533acb080636214dafa11a8419ee3c7013d5b786ffba19e3deccdcf3e1e44ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84e258dca821aeb04e057cdeb14b7040402dab682fe1fbffa068e3b01edd9430",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-23T14:09:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9541cbeeb9eef7bd3310bfb1ca3b6e1901652586ae5b1f37def09ce6f70d8761"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.5183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}