A major factor in the uptake of new statistical methods is the availability of user-friendly software implementations. One attractive feature of Stata is that users can write their own commands and release them to other users via Statistical Software Components at Boston College. Authors of statistical programs do not always get adequate credit, because programs are rarely cited properly. There is no obvious measure of a program's impact, but researchers are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the impact of their work to funders. In addition to encouraging proper citation of software, the number of downloads of a user-written package can be regarded as a measure of impact over time. In this article, we explain how such information can be accessed for any month from July 2007 and summarized using the new ssccount command.

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随着时间的推移量化用户编写的命令的吸收。

采用新统计方法的一个主要因素是用户友好的软件实现的可用性。Stata 的一个吸引人的特点是用户可以编写自己的命令并通过波士顿学院的统计软件组件将它们发布给其他用户。统计程序的作者并不总是得到足够的信任，因为程序很少被正确引用。一个项目的影响没有明显的衡量标准，但研究人员面临越来越大的压力，要向资助者展示他们的工作的影响。除了鼓励正确引用软件之外，用户编写的软件包的下载次数也可以被视为随时间推移影响的衡量标准。在本文中，我们解释了如何从 2007 年 7 月起的任何一个月访问此类信息，并使用新的 ssccount 命令进行汇总。