Pith Number

pith:OO7HZCKB

pith:2019:OO7HZCKBAZZXYMDISHRH3SHBPL

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Robust estimation of the mean with bounded relative standard deviation

Mark Huber

arxiv:1908.05386 v1 · 2019-08-15 · stat.CO · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OO7HZCKBAZZXYMDISHRH3SHBPL}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-04T23:56:50.992980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73be7c894106737c306891e27dc8e17afbe7a35da3d3bff70f08e4199d80df74

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.05386 · arxiv_version: 1908.05386v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.05386 · pith_short_12: OO7HZCKBAZZX · pith_short_16: OO7HZCKBAZZXYMDI · pith_short_8: OO7HZCKB

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/OO7HZCKBAZZXYMDISHRH3SHBPL \
  | 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: 73be7c894106737c306891e27dc8e17afbe7a35da3d3bff70f08e4199d80df74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88591f191187b49a4047275affa8604944c02ea0e7ab46f7915bf13dc58c9bb9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-15T01:13:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d70ab846bfef73bdb50835d99ff51134dcdc8478f730dbb3f8d7ed079ee3e66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.05386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}