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Helpful hints from the tool makers

Flow Charts

Tool: Barzooka

We recommend including a study flow chart to help readers evaluate the risk of bias. Study flow charts efficiently illustrate the study design, and show the number of included and excluded observations at each phase of the experiment. Many reporting guidelines contain flow chart templates for different study design types (e.g. CONSORT for clinical trials, PRISMA for systematic reviews, STROBE for observational studies). Flow charts are also important for animal studies and in vitro experiments. The NC3Rs Experimental Design Assistant tool can create flow charts for preclinical studies. 

Registration Statement

Tool: Trial-Identifier

We recommend preregistration of all confirmatory studies to ensure the validity of statistical assumptions. For exploratory studies we recommend that authors clearly identify a study as exploratory.

Helpful information:

* The garden of forking paths, how statistics goes wrong with exploratory studies (Slides from Dorothy Bishop)

* Where to pre-register your study for free? Try Open Science Framework, OSF, you can browse registered reports or submit your own at OSF.org

 

Tools and Papers

Tool: Barzooka

Paper: Riedel et al 2022; https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20220287