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Case 16 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point b...

Case 80 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · documentation exercise A table has been copied into a new format without ...

Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...

Limit of the answer in “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome…” is an excerpt from the ...

Case 3 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources A review cites another review for a claim about an experiment. How can the ev...

Case 18 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measur...

Case 36 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible · source wording exercise A subgroup finding was not the primary planned analysis. How...

Case 22 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured A chart caption names a mechanism but omits the observed endpoint. How can the c...

Case 26 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Two laboratories, two per...

Clarification for “A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation”: the point beginning “State the study design and what was actually me...

Case 13 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not ide...

Use a comparison-status column: directly comparable, comparable with stated qualifications, or not established. Explain the reason for each label.