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Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Website of the month September - Statchecker

This may be of interest to just a few of you who may work and collaborate on psychological research (such as with the Department of Work Psychology), but I think it's worth sharing wider. 

 http://statcheck.io/ 

 Statcheck is a program that checks for errors in statistical reporting in APA-formatted documents. It was originally written in the R programming language. Statcheck/web is a web-based implementation of statcheck. Using statcheck/web, you can check any PDF for statistical errors without installing the R programming language on your computer. To use statcheck/web, simply upload a PDF or HTML file of your APA-formatted document. The output will identify any errors in statistical reporting that can be identified. (For a summary of what statcheck can and cannot do, see the statcheck manual. Please note, as said before, this only works with APA-formatted papers.
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http://statcheck.io/
We contacted the creator of the package to ask whether other styles (Harvard etc) would be added and think something might be developed in time. There is a blog post on the LSE Impact Blog which explains more. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/02/28/statcheck-a-spellchecker-for-statistics/
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