Pith Number

pith:ZDNJNPRH

pith:2018:ZDNJNPRHBBPAYQWCJDCVXVG5IR

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A new paradox in random-effects meta-analysis

Aimin Wu, Jiandong Shi, Tiejun Tong

arxiv:1812.09061 v2 · 2018-12-21 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZDNJNPRHBBPAYQWCJDCVXVG5IR}

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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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First computed	2026-05-17T23:46:18.933185Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8da96be27085e0c42c248c55bd4dd4468e437326a1e1518149dfc21b3e69d43

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.09061 · arxiv_version: 1812.09061v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.09061 · pith_short_12: ZDNJNPRHBBPA · pith_short_16: ZDNJNPRHBBPAYQWC · pith_short_8: ZDNJNPRH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZDNJNPRHBBPAYQWCJDCVXVG5IR \
  | 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: c8da96be27085e0c42c248c55bd4dd4468e437326a1e1518149dfc21b3e69d43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "982b619bc3d58ae9b3da66de704f8730e329053f00452cdacce129137f9bae8e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-21T11:39:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4b64a0aff6bf175908deee8b9b6ac61803dfc29b3215cbfc62edf52d1024ce5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.09061",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}