Pith Number

pith:SMIGYYLQ

pith:2011:SMIGYYLQ4RIQU46WDIN27E7T5U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Automatic Step Size Selection in Random Walk Metropolis Algorithms

Todd L. Graves

arxiv:1103.5986 v1 · 2011-03-30 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMIGYYLQ4RIQU46WDIN27E7T5U}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:25:26.916287Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93106c6170e4510a73d61a1baf93f3ed0deb1429e82617efa883be0545db7c74

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.5986 · arxiv_version: 1103.5986v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.5986 · pith_short_12: SMIGYYLQ4RIQ · pith_short_16: SMIGYYLQ4RIQU46W · pith_short_8: SMIGYYLQ

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/SMIGYYLQ4RIQU46WDIN27E7T5U \
  | 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: 93106c6170e4510a73d61a1baf93f3ed0deb1429e82617efa883be0545db7c74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50e483159fd3e3faf5106496f37d6d68c9b265e209d19b3683d92c5582930b8d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-30T16:32:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3933346cfa19e60458c1cfb6de6b163dc85da67bd1da59e8f135286d335e8f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.5986",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}