Pith Number

pith:UQEG7XJR

pith:2023:UQEG7XJRKFQV2OYIFSU4YRZIHH

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Reverse Engineering the Reproduction Number: A Framework for Data-Driven Counterfactual Analysis, Strategy Evaluation, and Feedback Control of Epidemics

Baike She, Ian Pytlarz, Philip E. Par\'e, Rebecca Lee Smith, Shreyas Sundaram

arxiv:2311.01471 v1 · 2023-10-31 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SY · eess.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UQEG7XJRKFQV2OYIFSU4YRZIHH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:24:01.579218Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4086fdd3151615d3b082ca9cc472839f90702f9346ba12e48180d5dcb20f285

Aliases

arxiv: 2311.01471 · arxiv_version: 2311.01471v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.01471 · pith_short_12: UQEG7XJRKFQV · pith_short_16: UQEG7XJRKFQV2OYI · pith_short_8: UQEG7XJR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UQEG7XJRKFQV2OYIFSU4YRZIHH \
  | 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: a4086fdd3151615d3b082ca9cc472839f90702f9346ba12e48180d5dcb20f285

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "619d75c74393e55c0b504a04777bc349abaec9db8ed728dd6fb235d01b140228",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-10-31T15:46:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f5226b0ee282313dd060a4286b10a24d136386c3fa4c6ec903a02720cdb81ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2311.01471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}