Pith Number

pith:PQVVVKKP

pith:2015:PQVVVKKPKLDGM4X2VEJIWDQHAD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient adaptive MCMC through precision estimation

David Bolin, Jonas Wallin

arxiv:1505.03908 v2 · 2015-05-14 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PQVVVKKPKLDGM4X2VEJIWDQHAD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:13.342375Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c2b5aa94f52c66672faa9128b0e0700cfe4bff70d87abc56caa346602111532

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.03908 · arxiv_version: 1505.03908v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.03908 · pith_short_12: PQVVVKKPKLDG · pith_short_16: PQVVVKKPKLDGM4X2 · pith_short_8: PQVVVKKP

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/PQVVVKKPKLDGM4X2VEJIWDQHAD \
  | 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: 7c2b5aa94f52c66672faa9128b0e0700cfe4bff70d87abc56caa346602111532

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35b59cf275558eb6e0386ad4466ebb604d8e89aa696595062a95830c3c395fcb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-14T22:30:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28cac9dcef391162cdfdf8600fca09a7a9023eb70edb9f26986c95ac8535f345"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.03908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}