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Case 29 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Reader check for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty...
Case 46 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise A reagent dossier contains a summary purity pe...
Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed and retain both original reports. Do not infer a physiological trend before assess...
Case 14 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-refere...
Case 24 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Summary draft for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output ...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Case 17 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Two figures use different units and one axis is logarithmic. How should a comparison be d...
Case 42 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible · source wording exercise Clarification for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the l...
Case 43 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “A literature note that separa...
Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...
Case 41 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Reading a preclinical paper: wha...
Case 20 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Clarification for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the point beginning...
Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: retain the wording beginning “Report effect size, confidence interval and...