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pith:TTV5NKAN

pith:2026:TTV5NKANMRAWC2Y7HLQ377TDTZ

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Inferential Models: The Power of Auxiliary Variables for Reasoning with Scientific Uncertainty

Chuanhai Liu

arxiv:2606.18378 v1 · 2026-06-16 · math.ST · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-06-19T16:10:59.551609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9cebd6a80d6441616b1f3ae1bffe639e664cd9f1c74bb39a95914b2c34f8be8c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18378 · arxiv_version: 2606.18378v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18378 · pith_short_12: TTV5NKANMRAW · pith_short_16: TTV5NKANMRAWC2Y7 · pith_short_8: TTV5NKAN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TTV5NKANMRAWC2Y7HLQ377TDTZ \
  | 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: 9cebd6a80d6441616b1f3ae1bffe639e664cd9f1c74bb39a95914b2c34f8be8c

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T18:25:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa2c80b071c6b0760ccfc4c5bc7c2cbac338cc0814d4726dcdd07f40ec8203f3"
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  }
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