Pith Number

pith:RNI6C4Z6

pith:2017:RNI6C4Z6NOTCH2226IJOB52YW5

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Stem-ming the Tide: Predicting STEM attrition using student transcript data

Coulter L'Heureux, Jevin West, Lovenoor Aulck, Lysia Li, Peter Lu, Rohan Aras

arxiv:1708.09344 v1 · 2017-08-28 · stat.OT · cs.CY · physics.ed-ph · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{RNI6C4Z6NOTCH2226IJOB52YW5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:20.095824Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b51e1733e6ba623eb5af212e0f758b77c54909b86337a7908896764590186aa

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09344 · arxiv_version: 1708.09344v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09344 · pith_short_12: RNI6C4Z6NOTC · pith_short_16: RNI6C4Z6NOTCH222 · pith_short_8: RNI6C4Z6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RNI6C4Z6NOTCH2226IJOB52YW5 \
  | 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: 8b51e1733e6ba623eb5af212e0f758b77c54909b86337a7908896764590186aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd175e4ab2051ae3eede668dd95fb57178aa3b00c970530730c17f71dbe1f32c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-28T18:29:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b742ce318c12956b7c48947946dcfab07aa9f0f053919cd1ed213eedee8fa5d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09344",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}