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pith:PBNZOS3S

pith:2018:PBNZOS3S37FCCENAYS65U3DBCT

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Solving the Empirical Bayes Normal Means Problem with Correlated Noise

Lei Sun, Matthew Stephens

arxiv:1812.07488 v2 · 2018-12-18 · stat.ME · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:30.499254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

785b974b72dfca2111a0c4bdda6c6114cc18ab5440ed99f18c17bef501b2b4ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.07488 · arxiv_version: 1812.07488v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.07488 · pith_short_12: PBNZOS3S37FC · pith_short_16: PBNZOS3S37FCCENA · pith_short_8: PBNZOS3S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PBNZOS3S37FCCENAYS65U3DBCT \
  | 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: 785b974b72dfca2111a0c4bdda6c6114cc18ab5440ed99f18c17bef501b2b4ef

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-18T17:15:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4084dd7bb35194216b52cdc89a461305856a1e43842ed05d0a2de1d024fb46ed"
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