st: SSC Activity, July 2008

[Kit Baum <kitbaum@mac.com>]

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Over 129,000 ado-files were downloaded last month from the SSC  
Archive, representing the efforts of 265 user-programmers. The -ssc  
hot- command reports the most popular packages: e.g.

. ssc hot, n(25)

Top 25 packages at SSC

        Jul2008
  Rank   # hits    Package       Author(s)
   
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     1   1519.1    outreg2       Roy Wada
     2    852.6    ivreg2        Mark E Schaffer, Steven Stillman,
                                   Christopher F Baum
     3    821.5    estout        Ben Jann
     4    763.0    outreg        John Luke Gallup
     5    748.8    psmatch2      Edwin Leuven, Barbara Sianesi
     6    744.7    xtabond2      David Roodman
     7    457.0    gllamm        Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
     8    393.2    xtivreg2      Mark E Schaffer
     9    386.7    overid        Christopher F Baum, Vince Wiggins,
                                   Steven Stillman, Mark E Schaffer
    10    350.3    shp2dta       Kevin Crow
    11    335.0    tabout        Ian Watson
    12    323.8    spmap         Maurizio Pisati
    13    308.0    ranktest      Mark E Schaffer, Frank Kleibergen
    14    282.1    metan         Jonathan Sterne, Roger Harbord, Thomas
                                   Steichen, Doug Altman, Ross Harris,
                                   Mike Bradburn, Jon Deeks
    15    282.0    mif2dta       Maurizio Pisati
    16    258.3    xml_tab       Zurab Sajaia, Michael Lokshin
    17    253.7    oaxaca        Ben Jann
    18    210.5    cmp           David Roodman
    19    205.7    whitetst      Christopher F Baum, Nicholas J. Cox
    20    193.2    ineqdeco      Stephen P. Jenkins
    21    190.7    ivendog       Christopher F Baum, Mark E Schaffer,
                                   Steven Stillman
    22    190.4    ice           Patrick Royston
    23    189.8    ginidesc      Silvia Montoya, Roger Aliaga
    24    184.5    egenmore      Nicholas J. Cox
    25    183.3    mfx2          Richard Williams
   
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Statistics for the last three months are available, as always, at

http://repec.org/docs/sscauthors.html

Within Stata, you can always check on additions or updates to the SSC  
Archive with -ssc new- (ssc whatsnew in Stata 9.2).

Please also take note of the compilation of working papers, published  
articles, books and software for 27 members of the Stata user  
community who have self-registered at RePEc:

http://ideas.repec.org/g/stataus.html

If you are not registered at RePEc, please visit http:// 
authors.repec.org/  and let me know that you should be added to the  
Stata Users Group list, which I maintain.

Kit Baum


Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
http://repec.org


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