Pith Number

pith:YQVIE42J

pith:2021:YQVIE42J75TO3FM2BJHKUCUFPK

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An Automated Approach to Causal Inference in Discrete Settings

Dean Knox, Guilherme Duarte, Ilya Shpitser, Jonathan Mummolo, Noam Finkelstein

arxiv:2109.13471 v1 · 2021-09-28 · stat.ME · cs.LG · stat.CO · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YQVIE42J75TO3FM2BJHKUCUFPK}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-05T03:18:03.079033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c42a827349ff66ed959a0a4eaa0a857ab560752ce2fdc6195ebd7c1de24ad08b

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.13471 · arxiv_version: 2109.13471v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.13471 · pith_short_12: YQVIE42J75TO · pith_short_16: YQVIE42J75TO3FM2 · pith_short_8: YQVIE42J

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/YQVIE42J75TO3FM2BJHKUCUFPK \
  | 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: c42a827349ff66ed959a0a4eaa0a857ab560752ce2fdc6195ebd7c1de24ad08b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "475251c868ce8682a771211283ca98a346ece27926efab3285184a6021323a64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-28T03:55:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7eda8326073a178f11172b7c1e184d252e0e6678b6adbfd38852c5bf41df7ea4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.13471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}