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MMP.19:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
| Recognizable failure | Repair |
| Use the population input law after receiving information about the case. | Condition under the factual account before evaluating its alternative response. |
| Independently simulate two marginals and interpret the pairs as the same units. | Construct or bound the joint response law the interpretation needs. |
| Replace a nested intermediate value by its population mean. | Compute the intermediate response for each common input before evaluating the outer mechanism. |
| Report a uniquely identified answer because one chosen model yields a number. | Examine the target across the admissible models, or report the result as conditional on that model. |
| Demand a benefit probability for a choice determined by expected outcomes. | Recover the criterion and use the sufficient marginal comparison. |