Pith Number

pith:SIKWU5EF

pith:2016:SIKWU5EFMTLVJUNMSE7J2YNW5K

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Cluster-Seeking James-Stein Estimators

K. Pavan Srinath, Ramji Venkataramanan

arxiv:1602.00542 v4 · 2016-02-01 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.ML · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SIKWU5EFMTLVJUNMSE7J2YNW5K}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:52.624506Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

92156a748564d754d1ac913e9d61b6eab6a5307bd427cdfd7ef94fc985418881

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.00542 · arxiv_version: 1602.00542v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.00542 · pith_short_12: SIKWU5EFMTLV · pith_short_16: SIKWU5EFMTLVJUNM · pith_short_8: SIKWU5EF

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/SIKWU5EFMTLVJUNMSE7J2YNW5K \
  | 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: 92156a748564d754d1ac913e9d61b6eab6a5307bd427cdfd7ef94fc985418881

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9d5b7db854a945792b9406b6c3d98107e410bafed84548305a93f157f0a8128",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-01T14:37:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0c421edd237e002f11eb8fae2f8d75d4e461c76af1ae4170565428da71a26eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.00542",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}