Pith Number

pith:XZFCZNQA

pith:2013:XZFCZNQA2DSHTXOYELIUG2KH3A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Bayesian Approach to Graphical Record Linkage and De-duplication

Rebecca C. Steorts, Rob Hall, Stephen E. Fienberg

arxiv:1312.4645 v4 · 2013-12-17 · 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{XZFCZNQA2DSHTXOYELIUG2KH3A}

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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	2026-05-18T01:28:15.060638Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be4a2cb600d0e479ddd822d1436947d809e58ac6730beaf8fc4ff9d358858411

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.4645 · arxiv_version: 1312.4645v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.4645 · pith_short_12: XZFCZNQA2DSH · pith_short_16: XZFCZNQA2DSHTXOY · pith_short_8: XZFCZNQA

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/XZFCZNQA2DSHTXOYELIUG2KH3A \
  | 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: be4a2cb600d0e479ddd822d1436947d809e58ac6730beaf8fc4ff9d358858411

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe204c33ea0b76b566b2b56cc9ae2307bf96741294c8c50184af6cdf8eac63d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-17T05:20:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1ae0bc131cab81f2df35060a09137770fb745a8f1a8494bc33a8a1a88ca0dd6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.4645",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}