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Case 209 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · scope exercise Method note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: use “Report s...

Case 18 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? A chromatographic peak-area figure and net material content answer diffe...

Case 30 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · source wording exercise Clarification for “Reference management: distingui...

Case 30 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the met...

Case 22 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? Ask whether the sample identifier, issuing laboratory, report date and r...

Case 5 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Method note for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output tog...

Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.

Limit of the answer in “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale…” is an...