Pith Number

pith:XIMNCI6U

pith:2014:XIMNCI6UVICX7ECTZH54XRIZJ2

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Sampling Polya-Gamma random variates: alternate and approximate techniques

James G. Scott, Jesse Windle, Nicholas G. Polson

arxiv:1405.0506 v1 · 2014-05-02 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIMNCI6UVICX7ECTZH54XRIZJ2}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:52:41.297970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba18d123d4aa057f9053c9fbcbc5194e9e4dd0439242675081d1ce9aafdaddf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.0506 · arxiv_version: 1405.0506v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.0506 · pith_short_12: XIMNCI6UVICX · pith_short_16: XIMNCI6UVICX7ECT · pith_short_8: XIMNCI6U

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/XIMNCI6UVICX7ECTZH54XRIZJ2 \
  | 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: ba18d123d4aa057f9053c9fbcbc5194e9e4dd0439242675081d1ce9aafdaddf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "975ae4b8d2655af996b61befa4969a24b5f3ec488b61134789d86d073daeeb69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-02T20:37:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "941efd10be7999e5e2bfd4e7b2075205e3077d52a02fe6c28e410d9ac2b7bc49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.0506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}