In the latest ado-file update for Stata, which you can obtain by typing
. update query
there is a new -ssc- subcommand,
. ssc whatshot
Top 10 packages at SSC
Oct2007
Rank # hits Package Author(s)
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1 1214.0 outreg John Luke Gallup
2 911.1 estout Ben Jann
3 847.6 xtabond2 David Roodman
4 830.8 outreg2 Roy Wada
5 788.6 ivreg2 Steven Stillman, Mark E Schaffer,
Christopher F Baum
6 667.8 psmatch2 Barbara Sianesi, Edwin Leuven
7 508.2 gllamm Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
8 320.3 xtivreg2 Mark E Schaffer
9 315.3 overid Steven Stillman, Christopher F Baum,
Mark E Schaffer, Vince Wiggins
10 266.0 tabout Ian Watson
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(Click on package name for description)
SSC stands for Statistical Software Components archive, a.k.a. Boston College
Archive a.k.a. RePeC. SSC has become the premier download site for
user-written software on the web. If you don't already know about the -ssc-
command, type -help ssc-. -ssc- is easy to use. If you wanted to install the
package named -estout-, you could type
. ssc install estout
and, if you later wanted to uninstall it, you would type
. ssc uninstall estout
Anyway, by default -ssc whatshot- lists the ten most popular packages,
but you can specify the number to list:
. ssc whatshot, n(20)
<output omitted>
Type -ssc whatshot, n(.)- to list all packages. If you wanted to see
the ten most popular packages by Nickolas Cox, you type
. ssc whatshot, author(cox)
Top 10 packages at SSC by author Cox
Oct2007
Rank # hits Package Author(s)
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13 230.2 egenmore Nicholas J. Cox
14 198.3 whitetst Nicholas J. Cox, Christopher F Baum
19 175.3 winsor Nicholas J. Cox
35 132.7 tableplot Nicholas J. Cox
38 126.7 matmap Nicholas J. Cox
43 119.3 omninorm Nicholas J. Cox, Christopher F Baum
47 106.0 tsspell Nicholas J. Cox
51 95.3 statsmat Christopher F Baum, Nicholas J. Cox
64 86.8 examples Nicholas J. Cox
77 79.2 tabplot Nicholas J. Cox
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(Click on package name for description)
You can combine the -n()- and -author()- options.
The list is updated monthly and is based on a 3-month moving average.
-- Bill
[email protected]
P.S. Be careful about putting -ssc whatshot- on the subject line of email.
We have already discovered that most email filters give "whatshot" a
high spam score.
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