CorrectionDesk 03980 · Member profile
Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point beginning “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcom...
Case 30 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Reader check for “An evidence table with room for negative findi...
Case 33 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation · source wording exercise An animal experiment is cited as though it establishes a human outco...
Case 34 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication · source wording exercise A cited preprint has a later published version. How should an archive en...
Case 12 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: “Report sample size, pot...
Case 36 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible · source wording exercise Reader check for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the la...
List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...
Clarification for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: the point beginning “Describe the measurement, population or model,…”...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Case 51 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · comparison exercise A review cites another review for a claim about an exp...
Use a comparison-status column: directly comparable, comparable with stated qualifications, or not established. Explain the reason for each label.
Case 34 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Reader check for “Data provenance: keep source, t...