smr-tables-figures

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-tables-figures --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# SMR Tables and Figures Use this to make exhibits carry the methodological argument. At SMR the central exhibits are usually a **simulation results grid** and a **method-comparison table**, plus diagnostic figures — not the descriptive-statistics tables of a substantive paper. Each must be readable without the surrounding text and must let a reviewer audit the claim directly. ## The simulation results exhibit This is the most-scrutinized table in a methods paper. Design rules: - **One row per DGP cell, one column block per method** — or a small-multiples figure if the grid is large. The reader must compare methods *within* a cell at a glance. - **Show the metric that matches the claim** (bias, RMSE, coverage, size, power) and report Monte Carlo standard error or replication count so the precision of the simulation is visible. - **Mark the contribution cell** (where the incumbent breaks and the method holds) and the **boundary cell** (where the method degrades). Honesty about the boundary reads as rigor. - Avoid burying the headline in a 40-row table; lead with a compact summary and put the full grid in an appendix if needed. ## Method-comparison and notation exhibits - A **compari