Pith Number

pith:VHUBWDGA

pith:2026:VHUBWDGAE6RU5U3AIEQOFO6APQ

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Variance Estimation with Dependence and Heterogeneous Means

Luther Yap

arxiv:2603.11497 v2 · 2026-03-12 · econ.EM · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHUBWDGAE6RU5U3AIEQOFO6APQ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-17T00:20:45.658862Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9e81b0cc027a34ed3604120e2bbc07c1bf0827674d1c0afa093d2a78cbe044d

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.11497 · arxiv_version: 2603.11497v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.11497 · pith_short_12: VHUBWDGAE6RU · pith_short_16: VHUBWDGAE6RU5U3A · pith_short_8: VHUBWDGA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VHUBWDGAE6RU5U3AIEQOFO6APQ \
  | 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: a9e81b0cc027a34ed3604120e2bbc07c1bf0827674d1c0afa093d2a78cbe044d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6afea6ee43eb48e4ca4639f4d0bcfe2991cab26e2288f10a618a698d50a7ba4c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-12T03:34:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33f4756a2e216b2719b1ab40cb85fb2c8ab561df90f5532de0f2cc4bed5f863e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.11497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}