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Case 33 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise A result is described only as statistically significant. Wha...
Case 21 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive A cited article now has an editorial notice. How should the archive respond? Exercise R...
Case 46 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertai...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Clarification for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive”: the point beginning “Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record i...
Method note for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources”: use “Locate the primary study and confirm that it…” as a row headin...
Case 3 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods A strong abstract conclusion is being discussed without the study methods. What should the r...
Case 42 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · source wording exercise A archive table has a transcription error in a unit label. ...
The corrected summary can be useful without a clinical promise: model, methods, endpoint, uncertainty and remaining questions. Link each material stat...
Case 30 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Reproducibility checklist for a be...
Case 37 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · source wording exercise A archive table has a transcription error in a unit label. ...
Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: use “Separate the authors’ interpretation from the…” as a row heading in a propos...
Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-reference for alternate meanings rather than assuming that every histor...