Pith Number

pith:X7REBOIE

pith:2011:X7REBOIEIN7LYQMN5VTTKZ5ABX

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On statistical uncertainty in nested sampling

Charles R. Keeton

arxiv:1102.0996 v1 · 2011-02-04 · astro-ph.IM · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7REBOIEIN7LYQMN5VTTKZ5ABX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:03:16.581628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfe240b904437ebc418ded673567a00ddee6ad73e2f60eb5d2a0420ba1ff113e

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.0996 · arxiv_version: 1102.0996v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.0996 · pith_short_12: X7REBOIEIN7L · pith_short_16: X7REBOIEIN7LYQMN · pith_short_8: X7REBOIE

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/X7REBOIEIN7LYQMN5VTTKZ5ABX \
  | 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: bfe240b904437ebc418ded673567a00ddee6ad73e2f60eb5d2a0420ba1ff113e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46127e7d34df7627ab92990f3e5ce03b5325445720e2cc75d877931beb74503b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-04T19:07:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a282bf8fdfb2fb68ede88c541565ee8c78e790672e34aacaff28ab93ffb2940"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.0996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}