Pith Number

pith:SANWZOVB

pith:2014:SANWZOVBUYR2XPRPX3XWVJFQOX

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Building an NCAA mens basketball predictive model and quantifying its success

Gregory Matthews, Michael J. Lopez

arxiv:1412.0248 v1 · 2014-11-30 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SANWZOVBUYR2XPRPX3XWVJFQOX}

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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	2026-05-18T02:32:28.185928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

901b6cbaa1a623abbe2fbeef6aa4b075f2fcde4be868fa8d67374160c70dae61

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.0248 · arxiv_version: 1412.0248v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.0248 · pith_short_12: SANWZOVBUYR2 · pith_short_16: SANWZOVBUYR2XPRP · pith_short_8: SANWZOVB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SANWZOVBUYR2XPRPX3XWVJFQOX \
  | 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: 901b6cbaa1a623abbe2fbeef6aa4b075f2fcde4be868fa8d67374160c70dae61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da743a9720c19aec0005b05ba0f5a193a6ea5a95984cdd5599e7b94012c8ba89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-30T17:09:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f63d271ec409bd0d629f0f74e99309af27a0802c5ba01d77e0097391b4c4ffd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.0248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}