Pith Number

pith:PSNAEVYW

pith:2016:PSNAEVYWG4342BE6WM5D2VI2OM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Design of Computer Experiments for Optimization, Estimation of Function Contours, and Related Objectives

Derek Bingham, Pritam Ranjan, William Welch

arxiv:1601.05887 v1 · 2016-01-22 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PSNAEVYWG4342BE6WM5D2VI2OM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:09.878043Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c9a0257163737cd049eb33a3d551a7333a2a303762ce96acacbba50c5810886

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.05887 · arxiv_version: 1601.05887v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.05887 · pith_short_12: PSNAEVYWG434 · pith_short_16: PSNAEVYWG4342BE6 · pith_short_8: PSNAEVYW

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/PSNAEVYWG4342BE6WM5D2VI2OM \
  | 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: 7c9a0257163737cd049eb33a3d551a7333a2a303762ce96acacbba50c5810886

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51d47dfb13a1bdb484370002a03b0c87fdab5429950c0b9810310ff868764761",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-22T06:26:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ab65ace5e9590f11e29035e4166e6975af3bf137092dbfb12bf89c1ca0fa56d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.05887",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}