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pith:SM44ZUCI

pith:2015:SM44ZUCI4TLC752BGWF74KZDXN

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A fast, always positive definite and normalizable approximation of non-Gaussian likelihoods

Elena Sellentin

arxiv:1506.04866 v2 · 2015-06-16 · astro-ph.CO · hep-ex · physics.acc-ph

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\pithnumber{SM44ZUCI4TLC752BGWF74KZDXN}

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On the use of the Derivative Approximation for Likelihoods for Gravitational Wave Inference

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:33:42.904374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9339ccd048e4d62ff741358bfe2b23bb79fefbe371f2fbe58ec1efac6ccd03d2

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.04866 · arxiv_version: 1506.04866v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.04866 · pith_short_12: SM44ZUCI4TLC · pith_short_16: SM44ZUCI4TLC752B · pith_short_8: SM44ZUCI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SM44ZUCI4TLC752BGWF74KZDXN \
  | 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: 9339ccd048e4d62ff741358bfe2b23bb79fefbe371f2fbe58ec1efac6ccd03d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea011cb934f6492ca097c74b0e1188a20fa85e1896bf28aee06e64a315873ea5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex",
      "physics.acc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-16T08:01:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6230d2ff05df3a4b627e360f8de2535c0d97667b018fd87337be20c969fad453"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.04866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}