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pith:NICXNUKN

pith:2017:NICXNUKNAL3BCGFPJKOKRVKMUC

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Approximate Variational Estimation for a Model of Network Formation

Angelo Mele, Lingjiong Zhu

arxiv:1702.00308 v4 · 2017-02-01 · stat.ME · stat.OT

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:31:37.200973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a0576d14d02f61118af4a9ca8d54ca0b26d55fe7b2d464e2c9d27a5e2b7d656

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00308 · arxiv_version: 1702.00308v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00308 · pith_short_12: NICXNUKNAL3B · pith_short_16: NICXNUKNAL3BCGFP · pith_short_8: NICXNUKN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NICXNUKNAL3BCGFPJKOKRVKMUC \
  | 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: 6a0576d14d02f61118af4a9ca8d54ca0b26d55fe7b2d464e2c9d27a5e2b7d656

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9cf0b3a7ebf974da249a05eb2b506bec057490f9cf9f1003b11e426e20ecbd6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.OT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-01T15:21:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0d276338465f5c89c5e9c68b856483a358acf20d9014f42999cd0b5477f086d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00308",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}