Pith Number

pith:WFRJ44NT

pith:2017:WFRJ44NTHSWOT6MF4VIVYSTL4Q

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An Induced Natural Selection Heuristic for Finding Optimal Bayesian Experimental Designs

David J. Price, Jonathan Tuke, Joshua V. Ross, Nigel G. Bean

arxiv:1703.05511 v2 · 2017-03-16 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WFRJ44NTHSWOT6MF4VIVYSTL4Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:28.652516Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1629e71b33cace9f985e5515c4a6be43e625d08bf5f07601dd62befcd0699ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05511 · arxiv_version: 1703.05511v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05511 · pith_short_12: WFRJ44NTHSWO · pith_short_16: WFRJ44NTHSWOT6MF · pith_short_8: WFRJ44NT

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WFRJ44NTHSWOT6MF4VIVYSTL4Q \
  | 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: b1629e71b33cace9f985e5515c4a6be43e625d08bf5f07601dd62befcd0699ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f87c0265193dbe093e12f7b62966eb94e479944f3c5e4c23f9a2e420e58cd13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-16T09:01:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e2b8891b221ea6406694a3df18eb4fb873469fc04c25914fae636dbd9aef888"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05511",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}