Pith Number

pith:PVY6C2JI

pith:2010:PVY6C2JIGZNFOQ3WREDIHWOEWY

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A Bayesian Approach To Histogram Comparison

M. J. Betancourt

arxiv:1009.5604 v1 · 2010-09-28 · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PVY6C2JIGZNFOQ3WREDIHWOEWY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:40:09.771467Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d71e16928365a574376890683d9c4b615c3e5ce3070c0d025da499380a1a984

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.5604 · arxiv_version: 1009.5604v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.5604 · pith_short_12: PVY6C2JIGZNF · pith_short_16: PVY6C2JIGZNFOQ3W · pith_short_8: PVY6C2JI

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/PVY6C2JIGZNFOQ3WREDIHWOEWY \
  | 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: 7d71e16928365a574376890683d9c4b615c3e5ce3070c0d025da499380a1a984

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6db1d20c365c0eb138735cd2042984f41cbcf2218f89656cb326884ead33314",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-28T15:27:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d902eeb5c161a1907e3ff37f3cca7581bdc71f08af58271672ae3a9e2d6d6fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.5604",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}