Pith Number

pith:PMHSMLNZ

pith:2026:PMHSMLNZBBFHVLJGATRG6CKKR7

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Fast, Frequentist Estimation of Epidemic Reproduction Numbers

Alyssa Bilinski, Jeremy Goldwasser, Ryan J. Tibshirani

arxiv:2607.05887 v1 · 2026-07-07 · stat.AP · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PMHSMLNZBBFHVLJGATRG6CKKR7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-08T01:18:49.361698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b0f262db9084a7aad2604e26f094a8fc210dc371da620beacd2a7640c8cfa05

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.05887 · arxiv_version: 2607.05887v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.05887 · pith_short_12: PMHSMLNZBBFH · pith_short_16: PMHSMLNZBBFHVLJG · pith_short_8: PMHSMLNZ

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/PMHSMLNZBBFHVLJGATRG6CKKR7 \
  | 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: 7b0f262db9084a7aad2604e26f094a8fc210dc371da620beacd2a7640c8cfa05

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76491daf730145a82f34a176543f300ef7131f7946cdf1aab4a9297dccbe00d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-07T06:30:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6523848c4dfd9d9a68e192af64098cdce9835a210f6139ca1254dde0c672ee2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.05887",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}