Pith Number

pith:Q7LHGK53

pith:2015:Q7LHGK537B347RVNHCWZT7ITWQ

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Optimally estimating the sample mean from the sample size, median, mid-range and/or mid-quartile range

Dehui Luo, Jiming Liu, Tiejun Tong, Xiang Wan

arxiv:1505.05687 v4 · 2015-05-21 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q7LHGK537B347RVNHCWZT7ITWQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:20.473494Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87d6732bbbf877cfc6ad38ad99fd13b409f76409edaa643f7bf0c9e751eac330

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.05687 · arxiv_version: 1505.05687v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.05687 · pith_short_12: Q7LHGK537B34 · pith_short_16: Q7LHGK537B347RVN · pith_short_8: Q7LHGK53

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q7LHGK537B347RVNHCWZT7ITWQ \
  | 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: 87d6732bbbf877cfc6ad38ad99fd13b409f76409edaa643f7bf0c9e751eac330

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6002acf5af4c30183324a4e937b12d55f67c81a5441542fca990cee2d9e163b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-21T12:01:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6218722e27afa7251d163ecc20e13cbba492b53cf46e53d3503c54c94a3795f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.05687",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}