Pith Number

pith:SXE6MZMT

pith:2018:SXE6MZMTOWG7LM226SKOBEMLNT

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Data science is science's second chance to get causal inference right: A classification of data science tasks

Brian Healy, John Hsu, Miguel A. Hern\'an

arxiv:1804.10846 v6 · 2018-04-28 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SXE6MZMTOWG7LM226SKOBEMLNT}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:48:58.064886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95c9e66593758df5b35af494e0918b6cc30251dd6aa4200e7941092dadac80d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.10846 · arxiv_version: 1804.10846v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.10846 · pith_short_12: SXE6MZMTOWG7 · pith_short_16: SXE6MZMTOWG7LM22 · pith_short_8: SXE6MZMT

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SXE6MZMTOWG7LM226SKOBEMLNT \
  | 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: 95c9e66593758df5b35af494e0918b6cc30251dd6aa4200e7941092dadac80d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b11fdcac3aec25bce95092f5771974bd90412f5ecff4fa739edf0eaba8027b32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-28T20:23:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ec51bed05efd3fae18103b6cf4bd9a93af8bdb8a6a34295b9a82f6a1c7e90ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.10846",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}