Pith Number

pith:ZTPRCN6X

pith:2015:ZTPRCN6XY7EQBVJT3HI3NR2ACI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measuring Sample Quality with Stein's Method

Jackson Gorham, Lester Mackey

arxiv:1506.03039 v6 · 2015-06-09 · stat.ML · cs.LG · math.PR · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZTPRCN6XY7EQBVJT3HI3NR2ACI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:57:07.975285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccdf1137d7c7c900d533d9d1b6c740122afcc7e5a31ad826735df88caba2b7b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.03039 · arxiv_version: 1506.03039v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.03039 · pith_short_12: ZTPRCN6XY7EQ · pith_short_16: ZTPRCN6XY7EQBVJT · pith_short_8: ZTPRCN6X

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/ZTPRCN6XY7EQBVJT3HI3NR2ACI \
  | 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: ccdf1137d7c7c900d533d9d1b6c740122afcc7e5a31ad826735df88caba2b7b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fd328c215849942aab21463cd1be0c2ca3cfa93ba4127ec6a883a91e5a67000",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.PR",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-09T18:48:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ca1445a0a85626c3a14d56b2b79aad7344d3c2e3abd5810794e8abe18995c8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.03039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}