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‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature

Developed to detect statistical errors, statcheck reduces mistakes in reported P values by up to 4.5-fold.
  1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla

    1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science journalist based in London.

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A free-to-use tool designed to detect statistical errors is significantly reducing the number of mistakes creeping into papers, suggests a study published this January1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00788-6

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  1. Nuijten, M. B. & Wicherts, J. M. Preprint at PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bxau9 (2023).

  2. Nuijten, M. B., Hartgerink, C. H. J., van Assen, M. A. L. M., Epskamp, S. & Wicherts, J. M. Behav. Res. Methods 48, 1205–1226 (2016).

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  3. Nuijten, M. B., van Assen, M. A. L. M., Hartgerink, C. H. J., Epskamp, S. & Wicherts, J. M. Preprint at PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tcxaj (2017).

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