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## Question and design

Explain what researchers did to the animals or groups and what they measured. For example, if researchers give one feed to each pen and weigh its pigs, distinguish the pens receiving feed from the pigs being weighed. If they assigned no treatment, explain which animals they followed and what they observed. State your own question and data source, and identify invented records.

## Target and analysis decisions

Say which treatments or conditions you compare, in what direction and units, at what time, and for which animals or groups. Explain what is held fixed or averaged over. Choose a model that matches those records and explain why. Do not assume the cress lesson model suits your project. State a concern to examine with a model check, and one alternative assumption worth comparing.

## Main figure and interpretation

Insert your own labelled figure after making these decisions. In 100–150 words explain what researchers did, the question, model, estimate and interval, practical meaning and one limitation. State whether the uncertainty concerns a mean, contrast or future observation. Identify the evidence behind any meaningful-effect threshold, or call it provisional.

## Decisions still needed

List missing information about how the study was run, assumptions needing evidence, and one specific question for the instructor. Use these sections in your existing report draft. No assessed-project formula, fixed contrast or numerical answer is supplied by this template.