Writing and reporting
Methods sections, results sentences and figures.
- Report a resultSuperPlots: show cells and biological replicates in one figure (R and Python code)Plot every cell coloured by experiment, overlay each experiment's mean, and test the experiment means — with a worked example, figure legend, Methods sentence and R and Python code.
- Report a resultHow to report ANOVA results: templates for Welch's, classical and two-way ANOVACopy-ready sentences for reporting Welch's and classical one-way ANOVA, post hoc comparisons and two-way interactions, with where each number sits in R and Python output.
- Report a resultHow to write the statistical methods section: a fill-in template for animal and cell studiesA fill-in statistical analysis paragraph in the order reviewers check it, mapped to ARRIVE 2.0, SAMPL and the Nature reporting summary, with a filled-in mouse example and code for software versions.
- Report a resultSD vs SEM error bars: which to show, and what to write in the legendShow the data points, then pick the bar by purpose: SD for spread, a 95% CI for the precision of a mean. Why SEM bars mislead at small n, overlap rules, legend templates and Python/R code.
- Report a resultHow to report a mixed model: what to write in the Methods and Results, with a templateReport a mixed model's formula, random effects, estimation method, degrees-of-freedom method and software; then the fixed effect with its 95% CI, the random-effect SDs and the numbers at each level. Python and R code.