Methods
How Evidence turns a scientific release into an interactive, traceable study.
1. Study package
A study enters Evidence with its question, authors, methods, results, limits, source files and citation.
Study-specific methods remain part of the study. The platform does not infer or rewrite them.
2. Versioned source
Each published study version points to one scientific commit and one defined set of artifacts.
Changes to data, code or results produce a new release. Published versions remain identifiable.
3. Evidence structure
Association, robustness, transportability and uncertainty are reported as separate evidence dimensions.
Evidence does not combine them into a single score or turn directional agreement into equivalence.
4. Audit
Readers can change a documented analytical decision and compare the result with the published model.
The controls use completed analyses from the study release. Missing results are not generated or estimated by the interface.
5. Source trace
Displayed values resolve to the result table or artifact that contains them, together with the release and commit.
Evidence publishes cohort-level results and provenance. Controlled patient data remain with the authorized source.
6. Publication decision
Structural, artifact, provenance, privacy and citation checks can stop a release from being published.
A study is published automatically only when its exact compilation passes every deterministic gate. A failed gate quarantines the build with a machine-readable reason.