# Table check

Manuscript: `manuscript.md` · 2026-09-06 05:27

_Written by proof. Findings point at the manuscript; they never change it. Decide each one yourself._

2 markdown tables · 4 issues

## Issues

| line | table | kind | severity | message |
|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Table 2 | text_vs_table | major | The sentence cites Table 2 but the values 42, 26 do not appear in it: "As shown in Table 2, 45 participants (42.0%) in the chatbot arm reached the HbA1c target, compared with 25 (26.0%) in the control arm." |
| 40 | Table 2 | percent_of_n_mismatch | major | "72 (74.5)" in column "Control (n = 98)": 72/98 = 73.5%, but 74.5% is reported. |
| 40 | Table 2 | row_total_mismatch | major | Row "Did not reach" sums to 127, but its total cell says 128. |
| 41 | Table 2 | column_total_mismatch | major | Column "Control (n = 98)" sums to 97, but the total row says 98. |

## Tables

- **Table 1** (line 25, Results) · 4 columns × 7 rows · Table 1. Baseline characteristics of randomized participants.
- **Table 2** (line 37, Results) · 4 columns × 3 rows · Table 2. HbA1c target attainment at 8 weeks.

What is checked deterministically: ragged rows, n (%) against column totals or `n = N` headers, Total rows and columns, percent columns that should partition to 100, decimal-place consistency, caption pairing, and numbers a sentence attributes to a table. Cell meaning, units, and whether a comparison is the right one are for you and the model to judge.