Pith Number

pith:Z3HB4ST5

pith:2013:Z3HB4ST5UF3GMJ6RWUABMVIYNU

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An unbiased estimate for the mean of a {0,1} random variable with relative error distribution independent of the mean

Mark Huber

arxiv:1309.5413 v2 · 2013-09-20 · math.ST · cs.CC · math.PR · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z3HB4ST5UF3GMJ6RWUABMVIYNU}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:26:50.664680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cece1e4a7da1766627d1b5001655186d012db2f4764c17fecb139a26bcb09e9a

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.5413 · arxiv_version: 1309.5413v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.5413 · pith_short_12: Z3HB4ST5UF3G · pith_short_16: Z3HB4ST5UF3GMJ6R · pith_short_8: Z3HB4ST5

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/Z3HB4ST5UF3GMJ6RWUABMVIYNU \
  | 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: cece1e4a7da1766627d1b5001655186d012db2f4764c17fecb139a26bcb09e9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36bcb587870522b57c205a4222eb671e20da47584906d8bad500e4373f38f6ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "math.PR",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-20T23:37:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82383d0b7c68959388c3afd036541e23a0287096bfb1a21ae9882ff9249c38df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.5413",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}