Pith Number

pith:W6EWOUK7

pith:2026:W6EWOUK7KKNWM5TUCZHO7YOOG2

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Improving the efficiency of infectious disease prevention trials using negative control outcome event times

Bo Zhang, Ethan Ashby, Holly Janes, Tanya P. Garcia, Ting Ye, Zhewei Zhang

arxiv:2608.05261 v1 · 2026-08-05 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W6EWOUK7KKNWM5TUCZHO7YOOG2}

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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	2026-08-07T00:46:37.983668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b78967515f529b667674164eefe1ce36934c1774c636a7ad07be2341408c0a51

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05261 · arxiv_version: 2608.05261v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05261 · pith_short_12: W6EWOUK7KKNW · pith_short_16: W6EWOUK7KKNWM5TU · pith_short_8: W6EWOUK7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W6EWOUK7KKNWM5TUCZHO7YOOG2 \
  | 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: b78967515f529b667674164eefe1ce36934c1774c636a7ad07be2341408c0a51

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a27f88ee865ec9419bd0b448b0e393fea8adee28b7b985616b9458f9894efd13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T17:17:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1dd0e9dd1dce7bcaed45ae1ea49c86fccb841ff887e74b0dd3b7972ba30c611e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05261",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}