Pith Number

pith:W2SR2Y2M

pith:2015:W2SR2Y2MJ3LUE7TQGTUKSDHSDR

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Information Theory and Statistics: an overview

Daniel Commenges

arxiv:1511.00860 v1 · 2015-11-03 · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2SR2Y2MJ3LUE7TQGTUKSDHSDR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:56.017738Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6a51d634c4ed7427e7034e8a90cf21c5c5ced54d407da40a2d410b7d07586b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.00860 · arxiv_version: 1511.00860v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.00860 · pith_short_12: W2SR2Y2MJ3LU · pith_short_16: W2SR2Y2MJ3LUE7TQ · pith_short_8: W2SR2Y2M

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/W2SR2Y2MJ3LUE7TQGTUKSDHSDR \
  | 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: b6a51d634c4ed7427e7034e8a90cf21c5c5ced54d407da40a2d410b7d07586b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a62b3fe031e8d1b1c2609a74df3b41b05344a2287e3bccea9a56a9dbfdb432c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-03T11:20:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "173242316235b8625ccac3ab2b4b4fd383f93fd839da0b818ec79a8c8c5e7cce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.00860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}