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Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: “Association does not identify direction or causation, and…” is an excerpt from...
Put the species or model, design, comparator and measured endpoint before the interpretation. The reader should be able to see what was observed witho...
Case 41 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Reference management: dist...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Case 3 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records and changes in reporting ove...
Clarification for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the point beginning “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome…” belongs ...
Case 23 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation....
Case 20 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. R...
Clarification for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive”: the point beginning “Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record i...
Case 43 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation · source wording exercise Reader check for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: di...
Case 32 — Comparing laboratory methods across years · source wording exercise Two results were collected years apart with unknown method changes. What...
Case 51 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · comparison exercise Method note for “Data provenance: keep source, transf...
Case 20 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: use “Report e...
Method note for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: use “Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection cont...