Pith Number

pith:X2EK6ECJ

pith:2017:X2EK6ECJGSCGTB7PPA5245XK74

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Bayesian prior elicitation and selection for extreme values

Merlin Keller, Nicolas Bousquet

arxiv:1712.00685 v2 · 2017-12-03 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2EK6ECJGSCGTB7PPA5245XK74}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:05.012164Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be88af104934846987ef783bae76eaff0879c6afd47df32d4ad6b955f3959077

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00685 · arxiv_version: 1712.00685v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00685 · pith_short_12: X2EK6ECJGSCG · pith_short_16: X2EK6ECJGSCGTB7P · pith_short_8: X2EK6ECJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X2EK6ECJGSCGTB7PPA5245XK74 \
  | 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: be88af104934846987ef783bae76eaff0879c6afd47df32d4ad6b955f3959077

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "538efce891327782164a6378ae7ac3f12daabb613d2bfad112e966d3ee75e673",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-03T00:17:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa69b15018335a3b98160434dd256076ff3ad318ce546d5e922aa9296faf7ca4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}