Pith Number

pith:R343MUGD

pith:2009:R343MUGDIVETBPDYALWKNP5IAU

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Improving the Convergence Properties of the Data Augmentation Algorithm with an Application to Bayesian Mixture Modeling

Christian P. Robert, James P. Hobert, Vivekananda Roy

arxiv:0911.4546 v3 · 2009-11-24 · stat.ME · stat.CO

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:03:17.777374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ef9b650c3454930bc7802eca6bfa805228c98e6f8c323c9709cd066d75ff388

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.4546 · arxiv_version: 0911.4546v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.4546 · pith_short_12: R343MUGDIVET · pith_short_16: R343MUGDIVETBPDY · pith_short_8: R343MUGD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R343MUGDIVETBPDYALWKNP5IAU \
  | 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: 8ef9b650c3454930bc7802eca6bfa805228c98e6f8c323c9709cd066d75ff388

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f0d57dd5c686b1d9bce26f7760e317dc1c93d0b633514d9844142f38805d68f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-24T05:32:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a874a546aac86709c1975e1e93f4ef4efb8f140593972cbb05d40b9b0fa685a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0911.4546",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}