Pith Number

pith:RPRSKJQ7

pith:2012:RPRSKJQ7CB34HIUFZYE4JAR26G

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Diagnostics for Respondent-driven Sampling

Krista J. Gile, Lisa G. Johnston, Matthew J. Salganik

arxiv:1209.6254 v1 · 2012-09-27 · stat.ME · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RPRSKJQ7CB34HIUFZYE4JAR26G}

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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	2026-05-18T03:44:34.840186Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8be325261f1077c3a285ce09c4823af188e025607672cef72451f8454ed5c257

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.6254 · arxiv_version: 1209.6254v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.6254 · pith_short_12: RPRSKJQ7CB34 · pith_short_16: RPRSKJQ7CB34HIUF · pith_short_8: RPRSKJQ7

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/RPRSKJQ7CB34HIUFZYE4JAR26G \
  | 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: 8be325261f1077c3a285ce09c4823af188e025607672cef72451f8454ed5c257

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53e38cc163fbf62c7f13962b17a44838d5f5ee950670835296add4059262833b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-27T15:00:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c953f123d611b7a81fa6bbb4aedd2a6af0c1252bce6626078d27a1904907c6f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.6254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}