Pith Number

pith:ZHQZGV6X

pith:2018:ZHQZGV6XPV4NNJZ4BZIGIU6NJB

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Model Selection via the VC-Dimension

Bertrand Clarke, Merlin Mpoudeu

arxiv:1808.05296 v1 · 2018-08-15 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZHQZGV6XPV4NNJZ4BZIGIU6NJB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:07:57.593942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9e19357d77d78d6a73c0e506453cd486b9fa204a4f73d6692fb4acb6bda585c

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.05296 · arxiv_version: 1808.05296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.05296 · pith_short_12: ZHQZGV6XPV4N · pith_short_16: ZHQZGV6XPV4NNJZ4 · pith_short_8: ZHQZGV6X

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/ZHQZGV6XPV4NNJZ4BZIGIU6NJB \
  | 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: c9e19357d77d78d6a73c0e506453cd486b9fa204a4f73d6692fb4acb6bda585c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec7bee64abf583e9ee4b345d4d7b47c1895aa026879297161ad7dd8f5c9a0417",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-15T22:23:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "165f858256babba9fd6ce8bd967e8ab9f4cc07a34c8f67928739b63cc48b5179"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.05296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}