Pith Number

pith:XRNMI6WI

pith:2022:XRNMI6WIZRHFNIA7C6HXSPHRHI

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Should data ever be thrown away? Pooling interval-censored data sets with different precision

Krasymyr Tretiak, Scott Ferson

arxiv:2210.13863 v2 · 2022-10-25 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XRNMI6WIZRHFNIA7C6HXSPHRHI}

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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	2026-07-05T05:47:04.511698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc5ac47ac8cc4e56a01f178f793cf13a162d2d09c21c5b19053b7d7e52f9b4c4

Aliases

arxiv: 2210.13863 · arxiv_version: 2210.13863v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.13863 · pith_short_12: XRNMI6WIZRHF · pith_short_16: XRNMI6WIZRHFNIA7 · pith_short_8: XRNMI6WI

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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/XRNMI6WIZRHFNIA7C6HXSPHRHI \
  | 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: bc5ac47ac8cc4e56a01f178f793cf13a162d2d09c21c5b19053b7d7e52f9b4c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "985f561fea575486ca034a847962ef604c599fd16752e3acd73e58eab3f45982",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2022-10-25T09:37:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40bd11219e441a3899dc597149eda8bc3c8cf4fe6ce97a6ee8c35dba818af5d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2210.13863",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}