Our packages are open source, and so are the numbers behind them. Each engine’s adoption — downloads, citations, releases — is read from its sources, and this page shows what it finds, honestly qualified. No package is measured by a figure without its caveat.
Measured 2026-10-02 from CRAN, OpenAlex and GitHub; SSC figures from ssccount, as of 2026-08-25.
Mixed-effects regression for any outcome, plus the full survival roster; joint and multistate models via cross-model links.
Bayesian flexible-parametric survival — a bayesmh prefix over stmerlin.
General multistate modelling — msset, msaj, predictms.
The original survival-data simulator.
Modelled excess-hazard and relative survival — a fitted reference rate, not external life tables.
Multilevel flexible-parametric mixed-effects survival — recurrent and interval-censored outcomes.
Quality-adjusted life years after a joint longitudinal-survival model fitted with merlin — the reference implementation of its paper.
How to read these. CRAN counts one mirror, not a census; the total is all-time, since 2012. SSC (Stata) install counts come from ssccount against the Boston College archive, measured on the date shown. The SSC figures here are for the engines listed; across all 14 packages by the author on SSC — including earlier survival and meta-analysis tools — installs total 104,464. CRAN and SSC are never summed. Citations, being language-agnostic, count Stata and R reach as one.