Pith Number

pith:SMV5XCY4

pith:2013:SMV5XCY43SXDNEEC256NTZRQWX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Diagnostics for Variational Bayes approximations

Hui Zhao, Paul Marriott

arxiv:1309.5117 v1 · 2013-09-19 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMV5XCY43SXDNEEC256NTZRQWX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:12:47.708913Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

932bdb8b1cdcae369082d77cd9e630b5fb75e041e94f88133420f16734d8033c

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.5117 · arxiv_version: 1309.5117v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.5117 · pith_short_12: SMV5XCY43SXD · pith_short_16: SMV5XCY43SXDNEEC · pith_short_8: SMV5XCY4

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/SMV5XCY43SXDNEEC256NTZRQWX \
  | 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: 932bdb8b1cdcae369082d77cd9e630b5fb75e041e94f88133420f16734d8033c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "497f04fdf21ae4a331d8d7ac608aacde0a059c3179220d63362cc64fdb5013fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-19T22:59:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8a5f1ff820a5bcd3df3539b4f66a0d3e9b17d6b6c0549ba78dbab90cc22469a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.5117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}