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Case 3 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed a...
Case 31 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Reproducibility checklist for a be...
Clarification for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the point beginning “Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null…” b...
Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measured. A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot establish all of...
Case 127 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · correction exercise Correction note for “Reference management: distinguis...
Summary draft for “Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract?”: the answer addresses “Put the species or model, design, comparator...
Check the primary paper, supplementary material and any publisher correction. A review article can help locate sources, but it is not a substitute for...
Case 10 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Summary draft for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the answer addresse...
Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notice. They have different sources and may affect different claims.
Case 42 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise Correction note for “Retractions and expressions of concern i...
Case 23 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not ide...
Case 22 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point b...
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...
List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...