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Case 24 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: use “Report e...

Reader check for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: distinguish the discussion point “Expand it on first use and name the…” fro...

Method note for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: use “State whether it was prespecified and how…” as a row heading in a propos...

Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notice. They have different sources and may affect different claims.

Case 43 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · source wording exercise Correction note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: r...

Case 30 — A correction log for an archive article · source wording exercise A transcription error changes the units in a figure caption. How should th...

Case 11 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation....

Case 33 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Reading an abstract without skipping the ...

Limit of the answer in “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed…” is an excer...