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Statcheck: Extract statistics from articles and recompute p values

by morganism
24th Apr 2017
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This is a linkpost for https://mbnuijten.com/statcheck/
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Statcheck: Extract statistics from articles and recompute p values
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"Unfortunately, there is evidence that roughly half of all published empirical psychology articles contain at least one inconsistent p-value, and around one in eight articles contain a grossly inconsistent p-value that makes a non-significant result seem significant, or vice versa. Often these reporting errors are in line with the researchers’ expectations, which means these errors introduce systematic bias "

If you are unfamiliar with R you can also make use of the point-and-click web app at http://statcheck.io. Here you can easily upload an article and download the statcheck results in a csv file.

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