st: SSC Archive activity, Nov 2009

[A Johnson <ajohnson680@gmail.com>]

Hello Kit, I just had a lively debate with one of my colleagues
regarding the SSC activities. One of us is convinced that some of the
modules have been downloaded with the intent of making them appear
more popular. OUTREG2 and ESTOUT particularly look suspicious. What is
going on here?

. ssc hot, n(25)

Top 25 packages at SSC

        Nov2009
  Rank   # hits    Package       Author(s)
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     1   3497.8    outreg2       Roy Wada
     2   2299.6    estout        Ben Jann
     3   1373.4    psmatch2      Barbara Sianesi, Edwin Leuven
     4   1199.6    ivreg2        Steven Stillman, Mark E Schaffer,
                                   Christopher F Baum
     5   1041.3    xcollapse     Roger Newson
     6    901.3    outreg        John Luke Gallup
     7    811.3    ranktest      Frank Kleibergen, Mark E Schaffer
     8    761.2    xtabond2      David Roodman
     9    686.7    gllamm        Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
    10    634.8    xtivreg2      Mark E Schaffer
    11    541.2    tabout        Ian Watson
    12    466.7    winsor        Nicholas J. Cox
    13    404.0    whitetst      Christopher F Baum, Nicholas J. Cox
    14    360.7    rd            Austin Nichols
    15    359.7    xml_tab       Zurab Sajaia, Michael Lokshin
    16    345.7    inequal2      Philippe Van Kerm
    17    341.7    overid        Vince Wiggins, Christopher F Baum,
                                   Steven Stillman, Mark E Schaffer
    18    335.0    spmap         Maurizio Pisati
    19    326.2    egenmore      Nicholas J. Cox
    20    322.2    margeff       Tamas Bartus
    21    321.7    hprescott     Christopher F Baum
    22    321.0    shp2dta       Kevin Crow
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