st: SSC Archive activity, April 2008

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Downloads from the SSC Archive totaled more than 116,000 ado-files in  
April 2008, representing the efforts of 250 members of the Stata user  
community. The most popular packages may be viewed with the -ssc hot-  
command:


> . ssc hot, n(25)
>
> Top 25 packages at SSC
>
>         Apr2008
>   Rank   # hits    Package       Author(s)
>    
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>      1   2098.7    outreg2       Roy Wada
>      2   1161.3    estout        Ben Jann
>      3   1115.0    outreg        John Luke Gallup
>      4    980.4    ivreg2        Steven Stillman, Christopher F Baum,
>                                    Mark E Schaffer
>      5    889.6    psmatch2      Barbara Sianesi, Edwin Leuven
>      6    840.7    xtabond2      David Roodman
>      7    630.5    gllamm        Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
>      8    437.0    ranktest      Frank Kleibergen, Mark E Schaffer
>      9    435.8    metan         Roger Harbord, Jonathan Sterne, Jon
>                                    Deeks, Mike Bradburn, Thomas  
> Steichen,
>                                    Doug Altman, Ross Harris
>     10    428.5    xtivreg2      Mark E Schaffer
>     11    408.8    tabout        Ian Watson
>     12    374.7    overid        Steven Stillman, Mark E Schaffer,  
> Vince
>                                    Wiggins, Christopher F Baum
>     13    361.0    xml_tab       Michael Lokshin, Zurab Sajaia
>     14    326.7    whitetst      Christopher F Baum, Nicholas J. Cox
>     15    314.7    hprescott     Christopher F Baum
>     16    297.5    margeff       Tamas Bartus
>     17    247.2    moremata      Ben Jann
>     18    236.3    ivendog       Mark E Schaffer, Christopher F Baum,
>                                    Steven Stillman
>     19    221.7    mfx2          Richard Williams
>     20    220.3    winsor        Nicholas J. Cox
>     21    216.3    levinlin      Fabian Bornhorst, Christopher F Baum
>     22    211.3    cmp           David Roodman
>     23    207.0    unique        Tony Brady
>     24    206.3    outtex        Antoine Terracol
>     25    200.3    fitstat       J. Scott Long, Jeremy Freese
>    
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A list by authors is available, as always, at

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

giving ranks for the last three months of download activity from the  
SSC Archive.

Kit

Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
http://repec.org


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