Pith Number

pith:XUBFWJC5

pith:2011:XUBFWJC5XQ6V3ERPDXMC2PWYEN

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Bayesian Statistical Pragmatism

Andrew Gelman

arxiv:1106.3220 v1 · 2011-06-16 · stat.ME

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XUBFWJC5XQ6V3ERPDXMC2PWYEN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:19:53.941482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd025b245dbc3d5d922f1dd82d3ed823482cece7c0e5722e93288ac930879753

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.3220 · arxiv_version: 1106.3220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.3220 · pith_short_12: XUBFWJC5XQ6V · pith_short_16: XUBFWJC5XQ6V3ERP · pith_short_8: XUBFWJC5

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/XUBFWJC5XQ6V3ERPDXMC2PWYEN \
  | 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: bd025b245dbc3d5d922f1dd82d3ed823482cece7c0e5722e93288ac930879753

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c26f5fd7647f1c25a385ee3a5deb8dc0f89a2a28065b66b0b29aec7f646345b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-16T12:56:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "698ec1734e8482b57303e98ecfebe065a7b624bf0efe85e37db0ff04847205fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.3220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}