Pith Number

pith:VFX3KJZS

pith:2025:VFX3KJZS4Y7CJTOSBXIL5AVOGJ

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Identifying Key Influencers using an Egocentric Network-based Randomized Design

Ashley Buchanan, Donna Spiegelman, Junhan Fan, Laura Forastiere, Zhibing He

arxiv:2502.10170 v1 · 2025-02-14 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFX3KJZS4Y7CJTOSBXIL5AVOGJ}

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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	2026-07-05T10:14:29.403282Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a96fb52732e63e24cdd20dd0be82ae3246f25d9a58e43b4aa19d9972ae4dd8ea

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.10170 · arxiv_version: 2502.10170v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.10170 · pith_short_12: VFX3KJZS4Y7C · pith_short_16: VFX3KJZS4Y7CJTOS · pith_short_8: VFX3KJZS

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/VFX3KJZS4Y7CJTOSBXIL5AVOGJ \
  | 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: a96fb52732e63e24cdd20dd0be82ae3246f25d9a58e43b4aa19d9972ae4dd8ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bb86fc77d62fc320011aeef8e4a87ef0efb495eb6f951a761b7527fc99c1063",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-14T13:57:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8c1fe07df9ab2cdf17a2a67b7ea0a39878053f5297b3ee3a1abaf8c6721aeee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.10170",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}