Pith Number

pith:VGSG3YII

pith:2026:VGSG3YIIB5LXEEPNMXIWGFHIXX

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Identifying Direct Causal Effects in Latent Factor Models by Accounting for Unidentified Parents

Andreas Gerhardus, Jakob Runge, Mathias Drton, Nils Sturma, Tom Hochsprung

arxiv:2605.28105 v1 · 2026-05-27 · stat.ME

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\pithnumber{VGSG3YIIB5LXEEPNMXIWGFHIXX}

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First computed	2026-05-28T01:04:58.994841Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9a46de1080f577211ed65d16314e8bde480228856e9219a487528fe829d568f

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.28105 · arxiv_version: 2605.28105v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.28105 · pith_short_12: VGSG3YIIB5LX · pith_short_16: VGSG3YIIB5LXEEPN · pith_short_8: VGSG3YII

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VGSG3YIIB5LXEEPNMXIWGFHIXX \
  | 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: a9a46de1080f577211ed65d16314e8bde480228856e9219a487528fe829d568f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd7d87d34666989557e7398a03666a470b1b41c6e7827f7c7c9e64dfed29f1c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-27T07:58:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09707df4a9a7bce9957f83d90bcbe7962c2c7b033018c6e185bc27977af8b528"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.28105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}