Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Issue with Table created from Stata

[nica]

I'm new to LaTeX, and I've been messing around with "eststo" and "esttab" to get regression results from Stata to LaTeX without having to mess with the code too much in the LaTeX file.

Unfortunately, I'm running into a weird problem: I want to set the table to 'wide' using "esttab" (putting the SEs next to the estimated coefficients, rather than below), but when I do, LaTeX seems unhappy with the dcolumn package (to align the decimal points). When I typeset, it gives me this error.

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117: Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. <template> \endtemplate
l.117 ... &\multicolumn{2}{c}{(1)}    &    \multicolumn{2}{c}{(2)} ... ?

Here's the Stata command (if that's helpful):

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esttab using /path/name.tex,  ///
	label title("Title") mtitles("M1" "M2") ///
	nodepvars se(3) b(3) ar2 r2 scalars(F) gaps replace wide booktabs alignment(D{.}{.}{-1})

And the start of the LaTeX output:

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\begin{table}[htbp]\centering
\def\sym#1{\ifmmode^{#1}\else\(^{#1}\)\fi}
\caption{Title}
\begin{tabular}{l*{2}{cc}}
\toprule
                    &\multicolumn{2}{c}{(1)}           &\multicolumn{2}{c}{(2)}           \\
                    &\multicolumn{2}{c}{M1}  &\multicolumn{2}{c}{M2}  \\
\midrule
X1 &       0.657\sym{*}  &     (0.199)&       0.970\sym{*}  &     (0.298)\\

...

I originally suspected that changing the number of columns might have been the problem. I've looked into the dcolumn manual, but it didn't seem to help. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

[localghost]

Please prepare a self-contained and minimal example to give an adequate problem description. And perhaps you can avoid abbreviations like SE which nobody else than you knows.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[sjhunk]

same problem here, did you find a solution?

SE stands for standard errors.

[short097]

I also just encountered this specific issue and now have the solution:

If you use the wide option you need to provide 2 column specifiers within the alignment() option.
See the description of the alignment option in help esttab:
"If the table contains multiple columns per model/equation, the alignment specification should define all columns. For example, if the wide option is specified, you could type alignment(cr) to, say, center the point estimates and right-align the t-statistics."

In the original question, for the Stata code you want something like this if you want both the point estimates and t-stats to be aligned using dcolumn: alignment(D{.}{.}{-1} D{.}{.}{-1})