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Eligibility boundary-case worksheet

Resolve an ambiguous inclusion criterion and apply the decision consistently to earlier records.

Reconcile conflicting extractions by tracing each value to the report and analysis population.

Reconcile incoming alert records against a review inventory and decide which updates reopen screening.

Trace a publication update from its source notice to each affected extraction, table and conclusion.

Choose and verify the direction of a DataCite relationship before depositing metadata.

Trace a published figure through its exact intermediate data, transformation and source version.

Test that delimiters, quotes, newlines and literal text survive a read–write–read cycle.

Decide what one row represents and validate a candidate key before combining or summarizing records.

Resolve ambiguous local clock times before comparing event order or durations.

Verify that a simulation replays from a recorded generator state across the intended workflow.

Find missing system or package dependencies by rebuilding an analysis in an empty environment.

Isolate the first revision that changes a reproducible analysis result.