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Case 32 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise A result is described only as statistically significant. Wha...
Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...
Case 7 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion Correction note for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: retain the wording beginning “...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: retain the wording beginning “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome...
Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...
Clarification for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: the point beginning “Retain units, method, laboratory interval a...
Case 5 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? A chromatographic peak-area figure and net material content answer differ...
Limit of the answer in “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: “Create separate columns for the quantity measured,…” ...
Case 49 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · comparison exercise Method note for “Reference management: distinguish pri...
Case 31 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Reproducibility checklist for a be...
Case 41 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · source wording exercise Method note for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-met...
Method note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: use “Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records…” as a row he...
Method note for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: use “Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection cont...