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pith:OKW4BAKN

pith:2018:OKW4BAKNKSGENOFOBUNFIXAC6S

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Weighted batch means estimators in Markov chain Monte Carlo

James M. Flegal, Ying Liu

arxiv:1805.08283 v1 · 2018-05-21 · math.ST · stat.CO · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{OKW4BAKNKSGENOFOBUNFIXAC6S}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:27.032013Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72adc0814d548c46b8ae0d1a545c02f4af8a4d91adb66c051a4aada4d7eb9f54

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.08283 · arxiv_version: 1805.08283v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.08283 · pith_short_12: OKW4BAKNKSGE · pith_short_16: OKW4BAKNKSGENOFO · pith_short_8: OKW4BAKN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OKW4BAKNKSGENOFOBUNFIXAC6S \
  | 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: 72adc0814d548c46b8ae0d1a545c02f4af8a4d91adb66c051a4aada4d7eb9f54

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2187b24c9ba5957e7b5fedf4c06f2481b9e1dd89680e09b7aa58193a2a32f569",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-21T20:39:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a03b37de651e7c0c788dc73d1bf62d6f4448a61a979dfe7755673bbe92ccddfd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.08283",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}