Pith Number

pith:YLPKCG37

pith:2018:YLPKCG37VJQMR4JLFNZZERU6I3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Allocations for Sample Average Approximation

Harsha Honnappa, Prateek Jaiswal, Raghu Pasupathy

arxiv:1811.07186 v1 · 2018-11-17 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YLPKCG37VJQMR4JLFNZZERU6I3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:28.675387Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2dea11b7faa60c8f12b2b7392469e46ea100e9874c804376f2df5f265e2ebe9

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.07186 · arxiv_version: 1811.07186v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.07186 · pith_short_12: YLPKCG37VJQM · pith_short_16: YLPKCG37VJQMR4JL · pith_short_8: YLPKCG37

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/YLPKCG37VJQMR4JLFNZZERU6I3 \
  | 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: c2dea11b7faa60c8f12b2b7392469e46ea100e9874c804376f2df5f265e2ebe9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de92e4d90a09fd9ff3659fa1a9753cdf751ed9595d368c75eb55325e5afa855f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-17T16:48:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d19cbb2e0a87e16af22a5bb84814dff8da559c26a71e295d59f8199354dc944f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.07186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}