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Nature Statistics Reporting Review

Audits and drafts manuscript statistics text (units, tests, uncertainty, figure legends) to journal-style transparency

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Yuan1z0825/nature-skills
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51,827
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
11 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent reviews a scientific manuscript's statistical reporting: it checks what the independent unit of analysis is, whether tests, sample sizes, effect sizes and uncertainty are stated, and whether figure legends match the statistics. It flags issues by severity, marks missing details as AUTHOR_INPUT_NEEDED instead of guessing, and drafts conservative replacement wording. It mainly works from the text you paste; it only recomputes analyses if you supply raw data and ask for it.

Great for

  • Researchers preparing a manuscript's Statistical analysis or Methods section before submission
  • Authors answering statistical concerns from reviewers
  • Students or lab members learning what a statistically transparent paper should report

Skip it if

  • Replacing a statistician: it is a reporting and review aid, and the skill itself says it is not a substitute for reanalysing raw data
  • Clinical or regulatory trial decisions: the skill limits itself to reporting checks, so medical statistical advice would be outside its scope

Try asking

  • “Audit this Statistical analysis paragraph for unit of analysis and replication problems”
  • “Rewrite my figure legend so the n and error bars are explicit”
  • “Draft a reviewer response explaining why we used the mouse as the independent unit”
  • “Check whether my Nature submission's P-value and degrees-of-freedom reporting meets the flagship journal's requirements”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Nature Statistics Reporting ReviewInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 11 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    nature-statistics.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip nature-statistics.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip nature-statistics.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Paste the full Methods statistics subsection, the relevant Results sentences and the figure legends together so the agent can check consistency across them.
  • State the target journal if known, since Nature and Nature Machine Intelligence have extra reference files that the skill uses.
  • Expect to answer its AUTHOR_INPUT_NEEDED questions; it will not invent sample sizes, tests or software versions for you.

What's inside

  • agents/openai.yaml
  • manifest.yaml
  • README_EN.md
  • README.md
  • references/common-failure-modes.md
  • references/figure-statistics.md
  • references/nature-article-requirements.md
  • references/reviewer-checklist.md
  • references/source-basis.md
  • references/statistical-reporting.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.