st: SSC Activity, February 2012

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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Over 320,000 ado-, mata- and mlib-files were downloaded from the SSC Archive during February, representing the efforts of 421 members of the Stata user community. Per-author details are accessible at

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

While per-package details are available within Stata using the -ssc hot- command:

. ssc hot, n(20)

Top 20 packages at SSC

        Feb 2012   
  Rank   # hits    Package       Author(s)
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     1   6374.6    outreg2       Roy Wada                                
     2   4504.8    estout        Ben Jann                                
     3   1994.8    ivreg2        Mark E Schaffer, Christopher F Baum,    
                                   Steven Stillman                         
     4   1954.8    psmatch2      Barbara Sianesi, Edwin Leuven           
     5   1676.3    ranktest      Frank Kleibergen, Mark E Schaffer       
     6   1037.0    tabout        Ian Watson                              
     7   1008.7    xtabond2      David Roodman                           
     8    931.7    winsor        Nicholas J. Cox                         
     9    901.5    usespss       Sergiy Radyakin                         
    10    885.0    xtivreg2      Mark E Schaffer                         
    11    876.2    parmest       Roger Newson                            
    12    857.2    outreg        John Luke Gallup                        
    13    848.6    gllamm        Sophia Rabe-Hesketh                     
    14    823.7    fre           Ben Jann                                
    15    649.0    xttest3       Christopher F Baum                      
    16    643.0    cpigen        Austin Nichols                          
    17    625.7    egenmore      Nicholas J. Cox                         
    18    619.3    whitetst      Christopher F Baum, Nicholas J. Cox     
    19    577.2    moremata      Ben Jann                                
    20    568.1    spmap         Maurizio Pisati                         
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This command can also be used to search for a particular author's materials. For instance, focusing on the first quartile (by popularity)
of NJC's coilected works:

ssc hot, auth(cox) n(63)

Kit

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