Find out what other users are downloading on the SSC archive
The Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive, hosted by Boston College
(USA) and maintained by Christopher F. Baum, is the largest collection of
user-written Stata programs for data manipulation, statistics, and graphics.
Existing commands
findit,
ssc describe, and
ssc install
make locating and installing user-written programs a snap.
Now you can see what other users are finding most useful on the SSC archive.
Just type
. ssc whatshot
New command
ssc whatshot lists the most popular user-written packages available for
download at the SSC. By default, the top ten packages are listed. Typing
ssc whatshot, n(15) would list the top fifteen. Typing ssc
whatshot, author(cox) would list the top ten packages written by people
named Cox. Popularity is based on a moving average of the number of
downloads in the past three months.
Here’s “What’s Hot” on SSC as of April 2011:
Top 25 packages at SSC
| Rank |
April 2011
number of hits |
Package |
Author(s) |
| 1 |
5267.5 |
outreg2 |
Roy Wada |
| 2 |
4226.8 |
estout |
Ben Jann |
| 3 |
2102.7 |
psmatch2 |
Barbara Sianesi
Edwin Leuven |
| 4 |
2006.3 |
ivreg2 |
Mark E. Schaffer
Christopher F. Baum
Steven Stillman
|
| 5 |
1224.0 |
ranktest |
Mark E. Schaffer
Frank Kleibergen |
| 6 |
1126.5 |
gllamm |
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh |
| 7 |
1067.8 |
xtabond2 |
David Roodman |
| 8 |
928.3 |
tabout |
Ian Watson |
| 9 |
895.5 |
xtivreg2 |
Mark E. Schaffer |
| 10 |
789.3 |
outreg |
John Luke Gallup |
| 11 |
782.8 |
usespss |
Sergiy Radyakin |
| 12 |
736.5 |
winsor |
Nicholas J. Cox |
| 13 |
734.0 |
hprescott |
Christopher F. Baum |
| 14 |
571.5 |
overid |
Vince Wiggins
Steven Stillman
Mark E. Schaffer
Christopher F. Baum |
| 15 |
565.5 |
fre |
Ben Jann |
| 16 |
477.0 |
whitetst |
Nicholas J. Cox
Christopher F. Baum |
| 17 |
420.1 |
spmap |
Maurizio Pisati |
| 18 |
419.5 |
shp2dta |
Kevin Crow |
| 19 |
416.3 |
egenmore |
Nicholas J. Cox |
| 20 |
405.3 |
ice |
Patrick Royston |
| 21 |
398.5 |
fitstat |
Jeremy Freese
J. Scott Long |
| 22 |
398.5 |
xtfmb |
Daniel Hoechle |
| 23 |
386.5 |
xml_tab |
Zurab Sajaia
Michael Lokshin |
| 24 |
378.5 |
metan |
Mike Bradburn
Jonathan Sterne
Thomas Steichen
Ross Harris
Jon Deeks
Doug Altman
Roger Harbord |
| 25 |
374.5 |
xtoverid |
Steven Stillman
Mark E. Schaffer |
In Stata, you can click on the name of a package to learn more about it.
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