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Correction note for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: retain the wording beginning “Differences in biology and study conditions limit t...
List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...
Method note for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: use “Expand it on first use and name the…” as a row heading in a proposed wo...
Describe the measurement, population or model, units and uncertainty shown. Interpretive discussion belongs alongside the evidence, not in place of it...
Case 27 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise A reagent dossier contains a summary purity pe...
Case 2 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources A review cites another review for a claim about an experiment. How can the ev...
Summary draft for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the answer addresses “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outco...
Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...
Summary draft for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: the answer addresses “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals chang...
Case 8 — A correction log that survives the next archive update Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notic...
Case 20 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Use a comparison-status column: directly comparable, comparable with s...
List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...
Case 43 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the met...