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qpAdm best practices: the current checklist, with the numbers behind every rule

The definitive working checklist for qpAdm in 2026 — temporal stratification, right-set construction, lowest-rank-first search, composite feasibility and reporting standards — each rule carrying its measured justification from the 2021–2025 audit literature.

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  1. Before any model: the data rules
  2. Building the model: the structural rules
  3. Judging results: the acceptance rules
  4. Reporting: what a checkable model states
  5. The one-page version
  6. References

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