Pith Number

pith:ZL7SSSXE

pith:2019:ZL7SSSXEX2PG7A2U7ZRRVDYSOD

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Clarifying causal mediation analysis for the applied researcher: Defining effects based on what we want to learn

Elizabeth A. Stuart, Ian Schmid, Trang Quynh Nguyen

arxiv:1904.08515 v2 · 2019-04-17 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZL7SSSXEX2PG7A2U7ZRRVDYSOD}

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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	2026-07-05T05:11:16.604902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caff294ae4be9e6f8354fe631a8f1270ff5a1c25db48cddacd484305a77d194a

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.08515 · arxiv_version: 1904.08515v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.08515 · pith_short_12: ZL7SSSXEX2PG · pith_short_16: ZL7SSSXEX2PG7A2U · pith_short_8: ZL7SSSXE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZL7SSSXEX2PG7A2U7ZRRVDYSOD \
  | 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: caff294ae4be9e6f8354fe631a8f1270ff5a1c25db48cddacd484305a77d194a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ecdecf879bfa2ff62af408096a12294746201bedb48451d8cf5680714d3ad01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-17T21:50:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "517022c35516d969dccd3ad1a720eaf1080e3d0ab5ef69e3db4455fb2843b20f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.08515",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}