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Method note for “A correction log that survives the next archive update”: use “Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction…” as a r...
Case 39 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertaint...
Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...
Case 86 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · documentation exercise Reader check for “Data provenance: keep source, tr...
Case 9 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? Summary draft for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a ...
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...
Case 18 — A correction log for an archive article Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep th...
Case 15 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation The same abbreviation has different meanings in neighbouring fields. How can an archi...
Case 1 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving t...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
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...
Case 5 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Method note for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sour...
Clarification for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the point beginning “Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null…” b...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Clarification for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the point beginning “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome…” belongs ...