Pith Number

pith:SSASW4PA

pith:2017:SSASW4PAD4HPHCAZ5WGJNJ52O3

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Assigning a value to a power likelihood in a general Bayesian model

Chris Holmes, Stephen Walker

arxiv:1701.08515 v1 · 2017-01-30 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SSASW4PAD4HPHCAZ5WGJNJ52O3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:53.854730Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94812b71e01f0ef38819ed8c96a7ba76c07b845b52a248fff4769a7950f3b944

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.08515 · arxiv_version: 1701.08515v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.08515 · pith_short_12: SSASW4PAD4HP · pith_short_16: SSASW4PAD4HPHCAZ · pith_short_8: SSASW4PA

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/SSASW4PAD4HPHCAZ5WGJNJ52O3 \
  | 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: 94812b71e01f0ef38819ed8c96a7ba76c07b845b52a248fff4769a7950f3b944

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "895bb874fdf42825f86da4267f5b0819f8154ded0d92203399694a841e101fad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-30T09:10:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65c8464487bd4f05cdc7bd9fd602db3cc245a154bfef83faf4713f4686f00386"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.08515",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}