Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Table from Stata

[bayesian23]

Hello everyone,

I am running some regressions in Stata and use esttab to output the results into a Latex table.

I attach here the table that I get. But when I include that table into my tex document I get the following error:


table/mutual_fund_regression.tex

! Package array Error: Illegal pream-token (D): `c' used.

See the array package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.3 \begin{tabular}{l*{2}{D{.}{.}{-1}}}

?

Any ideas what the problem is here and how it can be fixed?

Many thanks in advance

Costas Antoniou

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Costas,

welcome to the forum!

The problem in this line \begin{tabular}{l*{2}{D{.}{.}{-1}}} is, that the D column type is not defined.

You can write, for example,\begin{tabular}{l*{2}{c}} instead.

Stefan

[rais]

or add \usepackage{dcolumn} to your preamble, then a "D" column is specified

KR
Rainer

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Rainer's advice is the best, so our code runs as expected, and the numbers are aligned at the decimal point:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,dcolumn}
\begin{document}
{
\def\sym#1{\ifmmode^{#1}\else\(^{#1}\)\fi}
\begin{tabular}{l*{2}{D{.}{.}{-1}}}
\hline\hline
                    &\multicolumn{2}{c}{Proportion Sold}        \\\cmidrule(lr){2-3}
                    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{(1)}         &\multicolumn{1}{c}{(2)}         \\
\hline
retpos              &       0.032\sym{***}&                     \\
                    &     (0.010)         &                     \\
[1em]
retneg              &       0.033\sym{**} &                     \\
                    &     (0.016)         &                     \\
[1em]
absret              &                     &       0.009         \\
                    &                     &     (0.010)         \\
\hline
Observations        & 1872832.000         & 1872832.000         \\
$R^2$               &       0.300         &       0.300         \\
Fund $\times$ Date F.E& F.E.  "Yes"         & F.E.  "Yes"         \\
Stock $\times$ year  F.E.& F.E.  "Yes"         & F.E.  "Yes"         \\
Stock $\times$ date F.E.&  F.E.  "No"         &                     \\
\hline\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{document}

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You may notice that the text in the math columns doesn't look good. You can improve it, for example, by using \multicolumn at such cells, like
\multicolumn{1}{c}{F.E. "Yes"}.

Stefan