Pith Number

pith:OFFS24YT

pith:2019:OFFS24YTPWZWUQ2GUJ7P6IAXKS

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Causal variance decompositions for institutional comparisons in healthcare

Antonio Finelli, Bo Chen, Keith A. Lawson, Olli Saarela

arxiv:1902.07692 v2 · 2019-02-20 · stat.ME

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\pithnumber{OFFS24YTPWZWUQ2GUJ7P6IAXKS}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:32:55.789240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

714b2d73137db36a4346a27eff20175487aed6e7437cdc3049100d7406a0d93c

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.07692 · arxiv_version: 1902.07692v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.07692 · pith_short_12: OFFS24YTPWZW · pith_short_16: OFFS24YTPWZWUQ2G · pith_short_8: OFFS24YT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OFFS24YTPWZWUQ2GUJ7P6IAXKS \
  | 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: 714b2d73137db36a4346a27eff20175487aed6e7437cdc3049100d7406a0d93c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9335ff8876596e50301c62f151dcada68bacdbb8fa115e8c84f5f55c511af865",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-20T18:39:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2dc267526e3e509e722cd114a7feb90bce83c0d6726a69207cdf72179b846bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.07692",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}