Pith Number

pith:RY2U5TYL

pith:2017:RY2U5TYL4KIEOO7XU4R6YI2T37

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Noninformative Prior on a Space of Distribution Functions

Alexander Terenin, David Draper

arxiv:1703.04661 v3 · 2017-03-14 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RY2U5TYL4KIEOO7XU4R6YI2T37}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:21.132625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e354ecf0be290473bf7a723ec2353dff6c29be211ff0dd01f48c905a6ce4e44

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.04661 · arxiv_version: 1703.04661v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.04661 · pith_short_12: RY2U5TYL4KIE · pith_short_16: RY2U5TYL4KIEOO7X · pith_short_8: RY2U5TYL

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/RY2U5TYL4KIEOO7XU4R6YI2T37 \
  | 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: 8e354ecf0be290473bf7a723ec2353dff6c29be211ff0dd01f48c905a6ce4e44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85e5923356b2a88d9052aaedec30d8a8b8085521700e74660967a73fb39721f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-14T18:48:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b7e536da737b3a202017d1c73efa4a698e0f6f01801adb0c35bb269a5afc303"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.04661",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}