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Case 2 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported...

Case 41 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Method note for “Data provenance: keep source, tr...

Case 27 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise A collection of forum reports is being treated as a representative ...

Case 48 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise A comparison table places chromatographic pu...

Case 47 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · source wording exercise A archive table has a transcription error in a unit label. ...

Case 11 — A correction log that survives the next archive update Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source refere...

Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a record of conversions or exclusions. Make synthetic examples explicit and never combine them silently w...

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

Method note for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: use “Explain the study’s scope and limitations without…” as a row heading in a proposed...

Limit of the answer in “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: “Describe the measurement, population or model,…” is an excerpt ...