Pith Number

pith:VPL5RD5Y

pith:2012:VPL5RD5YPYAOOXGMBXXCKUT5QQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Minimax Shrinkage Estimation to Minimax Shrinkage Prediction

Edward I. George, Feng Liang, Xinyi Xu

arxiv:1203.5617 v1 · 2012-03-26 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPL5RD5YPYAOOXGMBXXCKUT5QQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:59:14.613787Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abd7d88fb87e00e75ccc0dee25527d84298c8f43d81077fee7ec2d1c48f4ae6f

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.5617 · arxiv_version: 1203.5617v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.5617 · pith_short_12: VPL5RD5YPYAO · pith_short_16: VPL5RD5YPYAOOXGM · pith_short_8: VPL5RD5Y

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/VPL5RD5YPYAOOXGMBXXCKUT5QQ \
  | 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: abd7d88fb87e00e75ccc0dee25527d84298c8f43d81077fee7ec2d1c48f4ae6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8640803b04139359ab4c7ce53812f57fbde8fdd9cada169d29c6db6df23dfe26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-26T09:58:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "964f4336ee943b2443488198f9a0776c457078b5fd130b3057b71a6a13355a94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.5617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}