RMP.3:4.3 - State the intended use of the material and the records it needs

Explain how the planned observations or sources will enter the intended analysis or interpretation. Identify the supplied Method and the consequential choices still to be made under it. Specify exclusions, missingness treatment, stopping or adaptation rules where they matter. These are intentions; they do not constitute a performed analysis or a warranted result.

Decide what a later critic would need to examine those choices. A specimen identifier may connect an exposure record to a measured value. A search version may explain why a source entered a review. A dated protocol may distinguish an advance commitment from a choice made after an outcome was seen.

Arrange capture before the relevant distinction can be lost. RMP.4 supplies the actual trace and its limitations. Capture can begin while the operational specification is still developing; PatternID order is not a research calendar. Identify unresolved choices as unresolved rather than supplying an invented final claim to make the records look complete.

Plan permitted retention and access with their actual owners. A public summary, a controlled original and a later independent inspection can support different examinations. If the desired criticism needs information that cannot be retained or examined, settle that consequence in the design instead of assuming that a disclosure statement will make the criticism possible.