Pith Number

pith:NHEGSGBP

pith:2014:NHEGSGBPR456P3ZT3F3UJHGU33

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Leading the field: Fortune favors the bold in Thurstonian choice models

Philip B. Stark, Ronald L. Rivest, Steven N. Evans

arxiv:1409.5924 v2 · 2014-09-20 · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NHEGSGBPR456P3ZT3F3UJHGU33}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:55:52.379936Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69c869182f8f3be7ef33d977449cd4deeffe2c56d312201c8234be873fc764d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5924 · arxiv_version: 1409.5924v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5924 · pith_short_12: NHEGSGBPR456 · pith_short_16: NHEGSGBPR456P3ZT · pith_short_8: NHEGSGBP

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/NHEGSGBPR456P3ZT3F3UJHGU33 \
  | 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: 69c869182f8f3be7ef33d977449cd4deeffe2c56d312201c8234be873fc764d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffe886ca3ae5c822e6c3f8baa05d66491e70f31702dcc682e424b4649bbb5ca3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-20T22:59:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9425f0b04973a118fd98032f3e8b0ac50c3bc10d98d2d3d1894251f01325fce9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5924",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}