Pith Number

pith:W74RMD3U

pith:2017:W74RMD3UOU6UAN5QLDDSPV5WIL

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Optimal projection of observations in a Bayesian setting

Ibrahim Hoteit, Lo\"ic Giraldi, Olivier P. Le Ma\^itre, Omar M. Knio

arxiv:1709.06606 v3 · 2017-09-19 · math.ST · math.NA · math.PR · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W74RMD3UOU6UAN5QLDDSPV5WIL}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:52.967391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7f9160f74753d4037b058c727d7b642e7e02abe7fb521d845725767240aca9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06606 · arxiv_version: 1709.06606v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06606 · pith_short_12: W74RMD3UOU6U · pith_short_16: W74RMD3UOU6UAN5Q · pith_short_8: W74RMD3U

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/W74RMD3UOU6UAN5QLDDSPV5WIL \
  | 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: b7f9160f74753d4037b058c727d7b642e7e02abe7fb521d845725767240aca9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb182b1fead8c568f2f8744843e4e9ecc98d4ab4a309b89726ea3162f625a9db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA",
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-19T18:54:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed04e65ba3bba64685a084ab13728932fcde5703f115ca853ae38ab8a23e4145"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.06606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}