Pith Number

pith:TX4KPRQJ

pith:2017:TX4KPRQJKDABLSXRSVBUV36I2X

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Quasi-Reliable Estimates of Effective Sample Size

Robert D. Skeel, Youhan Fang, Yudong Cao

arxiv:1705.03831 v2 · 2017-05-10 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TX4KPRQJKDABLSXRSVBUV36I2X}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:41.901201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9df8a7c60950c015caf195434aefc8d5c312291f1e58b4eb4f97e8f6e98f145f

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.03831 · arxiv_version: 1705.03831v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.03831 · pith_short_12: TX4KPRQJKDAB · pith_short_16: TX4KPRQJKDABLSXR · pith_short_8: TX4KPRQJ

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/TX4KPRQJKDABLSXRSVBUV36I2X \
  | 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: 9df8a7c60950c015caf195434aefc8d5c312291f1e58b4eb4f97e8f6e98f145f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01f35b63453e0a991c47b2eb200d7fc426d11984a7f1a965dc81b35f3544f2f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-10T15:50:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3cd9f474b1954b53de0c71479866a8b31dd96790994030db14d5308bfa0df20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.03831",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}