Pith Number

pith:W5CV367Q

pith:2009:W5CV367QVPAOJYRKOTBK7FAI62

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Model choice versus model criticism

Carla Chen, Christian P. Robert, Kerrie L. Mengersen

arxiv:0909.5673 v2 · 2009-09-30 · stat.ME · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W5CV367QVPAOJYRKOTBK7FAI62}

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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	2026-05-18T02:11:35.811580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7455dfbf0abc0e4e22a74c2af9408f688b8d4969164aeaa2a00be3458c4d9d1

Aliases

arxiv: 0909.5673 · arxiv_version: 0909.5673v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0909.5673 · pith_short_12: W5CV367QVPAO · pith_short_16: W5CV367QVPAOJYRK · pith_short_8: W5CV367Q

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/W5CV367QVPAOJYRKOTBK7FAI62 \
  | 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: b7455dfbf0abc0e4e22a74c2af9408f688b8d4969164aeaa2a00be3458c4d9d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8060b567ef1d2790168d935c0b3d957752967e8dbd04ad2fd8814868c094c68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2009-09-30T17:35:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6911661b149c8691ffb766c2a456aa27ec3fc22f311ec7fb080f9f3eb7ab0e39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0909.5673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}