The Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive, hosted by Boston College (USA) and maintained by Christopher F. Baum, is the largest collection of community-contributed Stata features for data manipulation, statistics, and graphics. Existing Stata commands search, ssc describe, and ssc install make locating and installing community-contributed programs a snap.
Now you can see what other users are finding most useful on the SSC archive. Just type
. ssc hot
Stata command ssc hot lists the most popular community-contributed packages available for download at the SSC. By default, the top ten packages are listed. Typing ssc hot, n(15) would list the top fifteen. Typing ssc hot, 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 the SSC as of September 2026:
| Top 10 packages at SSC | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | # of hits | Package | Author(s) |
| 1 | 163775.4 | estout | Ben Jann |
| 2 | 114282.8 | reghdfe | Sergio Correia |
| 3 | 93274.17 | ftools | Sergio Correia |
| 4 | 82429.30 | winsor2 | Yujun Lian |
| 5 | 71916.70 | outreg2 | Roy Wada |
| 6 | 47989.10 | egenmore | Nicholas J. Cox |
| 7 | 45826.3 | ivreghdfe | Sergio Correia |
| 8 | 37605.0 | coefplot | Ben Jann |
| 9 | 36171.0 | rangestat | Roberto Ferrer Nicholas J. Cox Robert Picard |
| 10 | 34243.3 | require | Matthew P. Seay Sergio Correia |
In Stata, you can click on the name of a package to learn more about it.
