Pith Number

pith:NAEHQVNR

pith:2017:NAEHQVNRHM6EPOPATKKJDA3SWR

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Calculating the Expected Value of Sample Information using Efficient Nested Monte Carlo: A Tutorial

Anna Heath, Gianluca Baio

arxiv:1709.02319 v2 · 2017-09-07 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NAEHQVNRHM6EPOPATKKJDA3SWR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:33.348039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68087855b13b3c47b9e09a94918372b448435bf027a5523608963a1ccb4bad3d

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02319 · arxiv_version: 1709.02319v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02319 · pith_short_12: NAEHQVNRHM6E · pith_short_16: NAEHQVNRHM6EPOPA · pith_short_8: NAEHQVNR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NAEHQVNRHM6EPOPATKKJDA3SWR \
  | 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: 68087855b13b3c47b9e09a94918372b448435bf027a5523608963a1ccb4bad3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4684d96ff4aa723b0d9da8c3efd16bc7227fe75a8cfbae85f7bb81e0143fcde8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-07T15:45:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86c8feba0199625c77d0da650a3349d7d4e71126048e52b7d7929a973fc688ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}