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Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...

Case 47 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty ...

Case 7 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? The summary should say that different quantities were initially mixed a...

Case 23 — Comparing laboratory methods across years Limit of the answer in “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: “Ask whether assay, instrument...

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

Correction note for “Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support?”: retain the wording beginning “Separate document provenance,...

Limit of the answer in “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: “Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records…” is an ex...

Case 44 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured · source wording exercise A chart caption names a mechanism but omits the observ...

Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection context in a private clinical record. A forum comparison cannot diagnose a condition; a quali...

Case 40 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · source wording exercise Method note for “A correction log that survives the next ar...

Method note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: use “Such material can suggest questions but…” as a row heading in a proposed workin...

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...