Pith Number

pith:WJ4GZH7N

pith:2009:WJ4GZH7NM4KXFF7ACE5T6LSYHD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sparse Empirical Bayes Analysis (SEBA)

Natalia Bochkina, Ya'acov Ritov

arxiv:0911.5482 v2 · 2009-11-30 · stat.ML · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJ4GZH7NM4KXFF7ACE5T6LSYHD}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:59.443385Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2786c9fed67157297e0113b3f2e5838fef60190fdc478f28e8c89645f1f69b2

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.5482 · arxiv_version: 0911.5482v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.5482 · pith_short_12: WJ4GZH7NM4KX · pith_short_16: WJ4GZH7NM4KXFF7A · pith_short_8: WJ4GZH7N

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/WJ4GZH7NM4KXFF7ACE5T6LSYHD \
  | 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: b2786c9fed67157297e0113b3f2e5838fef60190fdc478f28e8c89645f1f69b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec18341f3ba9ba75920ac11b46860a3741cf9f8ec498a732ad31fe1f30e867c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-30T20:06:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2862621a9b9776809682ae456088e00f34aa043a772e992b3d79afe0cc5ffa9d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0911.5482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}