nature-statistics

1# Nature Statistics Reporting Skill
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3Use this skill to make manuscript statistics transparent, reproducible, and appropriately bounded. It is a reporting and review skill, not a substitute for a statistician reanalysing raw data unless the user supplies the data and explicitly asks for computation.
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5## Default stance
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7- Prioritize design transparency over decorative statistical language.
8- Separate three questions: what was measured, what unit was analysed, and what inference was claimed.
9- Treat the independent experimental unit as the default `n`; do not silently treat cells, fields of view, repeated readings, spectra, model runs, or technical replicates as independent biological or experimental samples.
10- Prefer effect sizes, uncertainty intervals, sample sizes, and exact test definitions over significance-only phrasing.
11- State missing information as `AUTHOR_INPUT_NEEDED` instead of inventing sample sizes, tests, software, corrections, exclusion rules, randomization, or blinding.
12- If a journal-specific instruction, study-type guideline, or field standard conflicts with this skill, follow the more specific source and mark the source used.
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14## Accepted inputs
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16The skill may receive:
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18- a Statistical analysis / Methods subsection
19- Results paragraphs containing test statistics or p values
20- figure panels, legends, captions, or source-data notes
21- reviewer comments about statistics
22- author notes in Chinese or English
23- tables of reported comparisons
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