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Case 46 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · source wording exercise A value has been quoted without units, assay meth...

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

Case 26 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Method note for “Data provenance: keep source, tr...

Case 43 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · source wording exercise A value has been quoted without units, assay meth...

Case 55 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · comparison exercise A value has been quoted without units, assay method o...

Case 20 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication A cited preprint has a later published version. How should an archive entry handle the relationshi...

Ask whether the sample identifier, issuing laboratory, report date and relevant analytical method can be verified. A copied certificate may be genuine...

Limit of the answer in “A correction log for an archive article”: “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” is an excerpt from the d...

Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: “Report sample size, potential confounders…” is an excerpt from the discussion,...

Clarification for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: the point beginning “Record the original units and axis transformation, show a...

Limit of the answer in “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: “Assess whether the conclusion extends beyond the measurements and note wha...

State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...

Case 17 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the...

Case 22 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Summary draft for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the answer ...