Pith Number

pith:VVVBHOFF

pith:2016:VVVBHOFF5BRI3W72KGSHW4JILU

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On estimating causal controlled direct and mediator effects for count outcomes without assuming sequential ignorability

Cheng Zheng, David C. Atkins, Melissa A. Lewis, Xiao-Hua Zhou

arxiv:1601.06743 v1 · 2016-01-25 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVVBHOFF5BRI3W72KGSHW4JILU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:03.800644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad6a13b8a5e8628ddbfa51a47b71285d3c8b8fdd60f098ec98387b7ab0e0245b

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.06743 · arxiv_version: 1601.06743v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.06743 · pith_short_12: VVVBHOFF5BRI · pith_short_16: VVVBHOFF5BRI3W72 · pith_short_8: VVVBHOFF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VVVBHOFF5BRI3W72KGSHW4JILU \
  | 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: ad6a13b8a5e8628ddbfa51a47b71285d3c8b8fdd60f098ec98387b7ab0e0245b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2740963c7532097baa150665bf145bad0abfdce4b98690afe42bacf41348b05d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-25T19:51:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ab71d55cd52e55b55ba38471e4b2e33a7d15a611801bc7c402c169903a5bc7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.06743",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}