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pith:OSA27ZLN

pith:2015:OSA27ZLNSP7LMANCIPWMQW73UM

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Beyond prediction: A framework for inference with variational approximations in mixture models

Ted Westling, Tyler H. McCormick

arxiv:1510.08151 v6 · 2015-10-28 · stat.ME

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:43.274298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7481afe56d93feb601a243ecc85bfba31e504e9740d7b563561c79bf2b3936fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.08151 · arxiv_version: 1510.08151v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.08151 · pith_short_12: OSA27ZLNSP7L · pith_short_16: OSA27ZLNSP7LMANC · pith_short_8: OSA27ZLN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OSA27ZLNSP7LMANCIPWMQW73UM \
  | 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: 7481afe56d93feb601a243ecc85bfba31e504e9740d7b563561c79bf2b3936fe

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c877ea71354d2071f0c9611b09b2f72b8ce544db9cb55c8cdc0824173aacb4a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-28T01:14:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cca4a93f07306039b2252752db465cbec37073f3fd897d72ee8124ad55b0446"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.08151",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}