Pith Number

pith:SIY4P5RO

pith:2017:SIY4P5RORER7BNEODHBZQHSE5F

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On the relative role of different age groups during epidemics associated with the respiratory syncytial virus

Cecile Viboud, Claudia A. Steiner, Colin J. Worby, Edward Goldstein, Hieu H. Nguyen, Marc Lipsitch, Patrick Liu

arxiv:1708.02560 v1 · 2017-08-08 · q-bio.PE

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:38:23.905767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9231c7f62e8923f0b48e19c3981e44e9747f122c4110d82b56336a995a8b529d

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02560 · arxiv_version: 1708.02560v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02560 · pith_short_12: SIY4P5RORER7 · pith_short_16: SIY4P5RORER7BNEO · pith_short_8: SIY4P5RO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SIY4P5RORER7BNEODHBZQHSE5F \
  | 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: 9231c7f62e8923f0b48e19c3981e44e9747f122c4110d82b56336a995a8b529d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0453744799f1ccc9437688355fd24e7917f68965a139b9f68e9db4f8b4a5a061",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-08T16:58:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96a1836a1719b7433f7c959630d50da1c247578f2435e3048913cf6ddd5abc40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02560",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}