Pith Number

pith:XVMRQJF2

pith:2018:XVMRQJF2UQQG2APUYKAV4SPT6I

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Mostly Harmless Simulations? Using Monte Carlo Studies for Estimator Selection

Arun Advani, Toru Kitagawa, Tymon S{\l}oczy\'nski

arxiv:1809.09527 v2 · 2018-09-25 · econ.EM · stat.ME · stat.OT

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\pithnumber{XVMRQJF2UQQG2APUYKAV4SPT6I}

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:22.442899Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd591824baa4206d01f4c2815e49f3f22e39db01bbe0d6553f7c3a931bc1043d

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.09527 · arxiv_version: 1809.09527v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.09527 · pith_short_12: XVMRQJF2UQQG · pith_short_16: XVMRQJF2UQQG2APU · pith_short_8: XVMRQJF2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XVMRQJF2UQQG2APUYKAV4SPT6I \
  | 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: bd591824baa4206d01f4c2815e49f3f22e39db01bbe0d6553f7c3a931bc1043d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36b99b1e0a583cedac6a19ffab17205b6bc51762c253866c1cf5c1c4def85be6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.OT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-25T14:54:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3eade85383e96643bfa03da4e7c5b188837be0987a60d5a182b7db1a06caa85a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.09527",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}