Pith Number

pith:OFPK2E2N

pith:2019:OFPK2E2NIMO5BPL37HZ7FTEXSB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Finding our Way in the Dark: Approximate MCMC for Approximate Bayesian Methods

Evgeny Levi, Radu V. Craiu

arxiv:1905.06680 v1 · 2019-05-16 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OFPK2E2NIMO5BPL37HZ7FTEXSB}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:01.416132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

715ead134d431dd0bd7bf9f3f2cc97905416d209a9d913a3ee8e94329863a5c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.06680 · arxiv_version: 1905.06680v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.06680 · pith_short_12: OFPK2E2NIMO5 · pith_short_16: OFPK2E2NIMO5BPL3 · pith_short_8: OFPK2E2N

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/OFPK2E2NIMO5BPL37HZ7FTEXSB \
  | 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: 715ead134d431dd0bd7bf9f3f2cc97905416d209a9d913a3ee8e94329863a5c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0da00385e44d6a9fb7b58e13121b2cd1ab1b3e2321a007ff89b41a9f38f91a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-16T12:08:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2362168362d881442ab13fe90e885dee1e58849276f7eb97c67aa9ecf1189857"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.06680",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}