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pith:YEDYKLE5

pith:2013:YEDYKLE52Y63WQ5LOQNNWK3NDN

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Improved multivariate normal mean estimation with unknown covariance when p is greater than n

Didier Ch\'etelat, Martin T. Wells

arxiv:1302.6746 v1 · 2013-02-27 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{YEDYKLE52Y63WQ5LOQNNWK3NDN}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:32:18.965766Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c107852c9dd63dbb43ab741adb2b6d1b43a32b882e2b89857956fae9f7510769

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.6746 · arxiv_version: 1302.6746v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.6746 · pith_short_12: YEDYKLE52Y63 · pith_short_16: YEDYKLE52Y63WQ5L · pith_short_8: YEDYKLE5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YEDYKLE52Y63WQ5LOQNNWK3NDN \
  | 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: c107852c9dd63dbb43ab741adb2b6d1b43a32b882e2b89857956fae9f7510769

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a3f999317e03c01134f376fbb81ce0820515b57b9b800e59c71ec803fdf3009",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-27T12:44:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84e6ab2a731897fa4c3c0ddb095694e8ec8f336e088940acfc891deab0d0ed58"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1302.6746",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}