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Case 42 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise Correction note for “Certificate of analysis: ...
Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...
Case 20 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample Limit of the answer in “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: “Discuss who chose t...
Case 36 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Reader check for “Data provenance: keep source, t...
Case 48 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Reader check for “Data provenance: keep source, t...
Case 13 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? The corrected summary can be useful without a clinical promise: model, method...
Describe the measurement, population or model, units and uncertainty shown. Interpretive discussion belongs alongside the evidence, not in place of it...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Summary draft for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: the answer addresses “Explain the study’s scope and limitations without…”; the relate...
Method note for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: use “Describe the measurement, population or model,…” as a row heading ...
Case 44 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findin...
Case 11 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured A chart caption names a mechanism but omits the observed endpoint. How can the c...
Case 16 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation Correction note for “A literature note that separates hypothesis from observati...