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Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Record when only a secondary account was accessible and avoid presenting it...
Clarification for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: the point beginning “Keep the source citation, retrieval date an...
Case 20 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive A cited article now has an editorial notice. How should the archive respond? Exercise R...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.
Method note for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: use “State whether it was prespecified and how…” as a row heading in a propos...
Case 3 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: use “Report ef...
Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation. A conversion or interpretation needs a documented basis; it should not silently...
Case 27 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-m...
Method note for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: use “Describe the species, model and…” as a row heading in a proposed working record....
Case 23 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together A table has been copied into a new format without its source or transformat...
Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...