Young eScientist Award to Improve "statcheck"
The Netherlands eScience Center awarded our team member Michèle Nuijten and our colleague from social psychology Willem Sleegers the Young eScientist Award for their proposal to improve statcheck. The prize consists of €50,000 worth of expertise from the eScience Center, which will be used to expand statcheck’s search algorithm with more advanced techniques such as Natural Language Processing.
“‘We are […] very excited to collaborate with the eScience Center to improve statcheck’s searching algorithm to make it ‘smarter’ in recognizing statistical results so that it can also spot errors in other scientific fields. We are confident that by collaborating with the eScience Center, we can expand statcheck to improve scientific quality on an even larger scale.’”