Pith Number

pith:SNG6U7U5

pith:2025:SNG6U7U57UGOCEEDWOD4M4SA3I

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The tail wags the distribution: Only sample the tails for efficient reliability analysis

Michael D. Shields, Promit Chakroborty

arxiv:2505.18510 v1 · 2025-05-24 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNG6U7U57UGOCEEDWOD4M4SA3I}

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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	2026-07-05T11:08:47.550431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

934dea7e9dfd0ce11083b387c67240da0e1f0e9f4ce0eeed5ac0d6c9ca87dc4f

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.18510 · arxiv_version: 2505.18510v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.18510 · pith_short_12: SNG6U7U57UGO · pith_short_16: SNG6U7U57UGOCEED · pith_short_8: SNG6U7U5

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/SNG6U7U57UGOCEEDWOD4M4SA3I \
  | 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: 934dea7e9dfd0ce11083b387c67240da0e1f0e9f4ce0eeed5ac0d6c9ca87dc4f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "772f011dfce3efafe49aa8b109b9565a93720dd81f897284579efb13fe081584",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-24T05:14:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eafce1d39f95475fcb15e32228a9b118c33e2a51aab719280aecbbdb018abea9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.18510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}