Pith Number

pith:RZR47PA2

pith:2018:RZR47PA26YJ5JE2PZGMSXIZ4US

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Is profile likelihood a true likelihood? An argument in favor

Oliver J. Maclaren

arxiv:1801.04369 v4 · 2018-01-13 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZR47PA26YJ5JE2PZGMSXIZ4US}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:11:28.917425Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e63cfbc1af613d4934fc9992ba33ca4bd50eff17c2b969432220db2490db8bf

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04369 · arxiv_version: 1801.04369v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04369 · pith_short_12: RZR47PA26YJ5 · pith_short_16: RZR47PA26YJ5JE2P · pith_short_8: RZR47PA2

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/RZR47PA26YJ5JE2PZGMSXIZ4US \
  | 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: 8e63cfbc1af613d4934fc9992ba33ca4bd50eff17c2b969432220db2490db8bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9acca7a2f95af14e5ac8056001633df45621b00671c602ac521afba85e1508cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-13T03:05:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c442b2fe7eff2fe92b0f1842ed022a55150139e4fb2d6569988d987365a57a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}