Pith Number

pith:U2NSM6KH

pith:2025:U2NSM6KHQX4KE2HD2ODUXMHV3U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal inference for variance components

Aaron J. Molstad, Karl Oskar Ekvall, Yiqiao Zhang

arxiv:2509.00255 v1 · 2025-08-29 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U2NSM6KHQX4KE2HD2ODUXMHV3U}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T12:02:12.422726Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a69b26794785f8a268e3d3874bb0f5dd2230d13c9a497cbd25b28d6ad50c3f2a

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.00255 · arxiv_version: 2509.00255v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.00255 · pith_short_12: U2NSM6KHQX4K · pith_short_16: U2NSM6KHQX4KE2HD · pith_short_8: U2NSM6KH

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/U2NSM6KHQX4KE2HD2ODUXMHV3U \
  | 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: a69b26794785f8a268e3d3874bb0f5dd2230d13c9a497cbd25b28d6ad50c3f2a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "621163e7979d6d02afd7e6161797e4d6cf6ee960b2a3a07a188645934345b633",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-29T21:42:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16bcc21706995ae74033a354aa42dbb9baeabaab031424819feab711e646c711"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.00255",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}