Pith Number

pith:XYY7YJDP

pith:2015:XYY7YJDPP54ZCU2AR63MEXGWR6

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A generalized-growth model to characterize the early ascending phase of infectious disease outbreaks

C\'ecile Viboud, Gerardo Chowell, Lone Simonsen

arxiv:1512.01389 v2 · 2015-12-04 · q-bio.QM · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYY7YJDPP54ZCU2AR63MEXGWR6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:50.219741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be31fc246f7f799153408fb6c25cd68fb6dca44bbd946fd90a41c17a06377872

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.01389 · arxiv_version: 1512.01389v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.01389 · pith_short_12: XYY7YJDPP54Z · pith_short_16: XYY7YJDPP54ZCU2A · pith_short_8: XYY7YJDP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XYY7YJDPP54ZCU2AR63MEXGWR6 \
  | 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: be31fc246f7f799153408fb6c25cd68fb6dca44bbd946fd90a41c17a06377872

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af97fe4a219657717aeefab862ab5e43b804f1011260d709057d6c01baad9798",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-04T12:36:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d1cd8551f8db1cbb6ae969c58b74c951831f1bd6e7cc6978def43316f4f51a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.01389",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}