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Case 25 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Correction note for “Two laboratories, two p...
Case 29 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · source wording exercise Method note for “Assay-specific reference ranges:...
Summary draft for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the answer addresses “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outco...
Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...
Case 44 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · source wording exercise Two variables move together in a small sample. What would a careful d...
Case 46 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...
Case 48 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation · source wording exercise Clarification for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguou...
Case 27 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise A table has been copied into a new format without...
The final note should distinguish corrected data transcription, changed source evidence and revised interpretation. Preserve that distinction in subse...
Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...
Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source reference. For a publisher notice, link the notice as well as the origi...
Case 12 — A correction log for an archive article Method note for “A correction log for an archive article”: use “Identify the original error and the ...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Case 3 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion A reader asks whether an experimental finding should change their treatment. What is an appropria...