what does までに mean in this sentence? = roughly: The cause-association for the case where things conversely went well is written in the brackets. Does the madeni mean' before the reference here?

means "just for reference".

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According to , the is:

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Example:

> ****
> Just for reference [your information], here are statistics for the past five years.
> (from _Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary_ )