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Case 6 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Clarification for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary so...

Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record its date and reassess claims that relied on the paper. Do not leave the historical citation look...

Clarification for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: the point beginning “Report sample size, potential confounders…” belongs to the ques...

Case 27 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise A table has been copied into a new format without...

Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...

Case 50 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · comparison exercise Correction note for “A correction log that survives the next ar...

State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...

Correction note for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: retain the wording beginning “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference inter...

Case 49 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · comparison exercise Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods...