Pith Number

pith:ZL26TNOS

pith:2008:ZL26TNOSNIH6COLYMIMYFT6TTG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Shrinkage Effect in Ancestral Maximum Likelihood

Elchanan Mossel, Mike Steel, Sebastien Roch

arxiv:0802.0914 v1 · 2008-02-07 · q-bio.PE · cs.CE · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZL26TNOSNIH6COLYMIMYFT6TTG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:53.354910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caf5e9b5d26a0fe13978621982cfd399b499229bbb1c409a87e798e393102cec

Aliases

arxiv: 0802.0914 · arxiv_version: 0802.0914v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.0914 · pith_short_12: ZL26TNOSNIH6 · pith_short_16: ZL26TNOSNIH6COLY · pith_short_8: ZL26TNOS

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/ZL26TNOSNIH6COLYMIMYFT6TTG \
  | 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: caf5e9b5d26a0fe13978621982cfd399b499229bbb1c409a87e798e393102cec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6444d4de40808edaf25dab9980fbce7f8cbc9f316cdafabc8483803f6c34ab14",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CE",
      "math.PR",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2008-02-07T06:52:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d65d6bb69adfb23c0e0aa73d21481a63b1d392f76e624cccea113ac0389937e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0802.0914",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}