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pith:VMD42CDO

pith:2018:VMD42CDOIYRUFC7HK3TMJE3TGZ

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A fast Metropolis-Hastings method for generating random correlation matrices

Concha Bielza, Gherardo Varando, Irene C\'ordoba, Pedro Larra\~naga

arxiv:1809.00351 v1 · 2018-09-02 · stat.CO

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:12:50.238962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab07cd086e4623428be756e6c49373366b6edad4f26ee4544da10c1f97bf02c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.00351 · arxiv_version: 1809.00351v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.00351 · pith_short_12: VMD42CDOIYRU · pith_short_16: VMD42CDOIYRUFC7H · pith_short_8: VMD42CDO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VMD42CDOIYRUFC7HK3TMJE3TGZ \
  | 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: ab07cd086e4623428be756e6c49373366b6edad4f26ee4544da10c1f97bf02c0

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09f5546ea2d262dc88f9a8b27e0839adcca8c3c702b1911f039ba31868b808b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-02T14:47:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da297112ffa4422a555b3723b41f5bc72eef3a5dc00a0623bf468fd140b171f8"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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