Pith Number

pith:PVTC5FJR

pith:2015:PVTC5FJRH4V3PSBQBZG4NKRWWQ

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Measure-Transformed Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Alfred O. Hero, Koby Todros

arxiv:1511.00237 v3 · 2015-11-01 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PVTC5FJRH4V3PSBQBZG4NKRWWQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:04.830054Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d662e95313f2bb7c8300e4dc6aa36b42404711e751c1c4da163bf1a90a33e5a

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.00237 · arxiv_version: 1511.00237v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.00237 · pith_short_12: PVTC5FJRH4V3 · pith_short_16: PVTC5FJRH4V3PSBQ · pith_short_8: PVTC5FJR

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/PVTC5FJRH4V3PSBQBZG4NKRWWQ \
  | 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: 7d662e95313f2bb7c8300e4dc6aa36b42404711e751c1c4da163bf1a90a33e5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b50a7e1169f36c14e6f3dad4e1764d6506ac8f19af8f81bfcd1b6ab830d5be1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-01T12:15:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af92a99bd98e32d6b7444499f10428c03a856f4048b6e7c654addd327ff93f77"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.00237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}