Pith Number

pith:YI4QA7MZ

pith:2015:YI4QA7MZM2KQGI3YMFLVTQO6OK

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The Correlated Pseudo-Marginal Method

Arnaud Doucet, George Deligiannidis, Michael K. Pitt

arxiv:1511.04992 v4 · 2015-11-16 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YI4QA7MZM2KQGI3YMFLVTQO6OK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:58.622658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c239007d996695032378615759c1de728119bfcdc7f5af37c9ff1ccb9c9d2c88

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.04992 · arxiv_version: 1511.04992v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.04992 · pith_short_12: YI4QA7MZM2KQ · pith_short_16: YI4QA7MZM2KQGI3Y · pith_short_8: YI4QA7MZ

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/YI4QA7MZM2KQGI3YMFLVTQO6OK \
  | 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: c239007d996695032378615759c1de728119bfcdc7f5af37c9ff1ccb9c9d2c88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63ed21374ed2556725493ff36d0d5bfb432a2763cfc739400632e16ba9ef2990",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-16T15:41:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc51067450f3cc2c7be08fbf9c2638227d3815c96d54a5465f92ebca07c61d41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.04992",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}