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Case 137 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · correction exercise Limit of the answer in “Certificate of analysis: ...

Case 9 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Re...

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

Case 20 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? Check the primary paper, supplementary material and any publisher correction....

Method note for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: use “Report sample size, potential confounders…” as a row heading in a proposed workin...

Case 32 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Clarification for “Data provenance: keep source, ...

Method note for “A correction log for an archive article”: use “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” as a row heading in a propo...

Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...

Case 44 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the met...

Case 5 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-referen...

Case 20 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Summary draft for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary s...