[Tex/LaTex] How to align p-values description in the notes of a table

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I am trying to format the p-values description in the notes of a table. The whole table layout is done with Stata (using command esttab) but changing the p-values format seems to be impossible. Therefore, I would like to do that after having imported the table into Lyx. That's how it should look:

Observations     1333    1111  
_______________________________________

Notes: Bla bla bla bla..
    ***Significant at the
     **Significant at the
      *Significant at the

The B and the S should be aligned. (It is required by the American Economic Review)

Does anyone know which package(s) I could use to achieve that? I do not need the code for it, I am eager to try first by myself!

I tried with dcolumn package (close previous tabular space, opened a new one with \begin{tabular} {l r} but it does not look as I should.

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Not that I know much (if anything) about p-values, but maybe this can be a start. I'd probably choose threeparttable:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,threeparttable}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
 \centering
 \renewcommand*\TPTnoteLabel[1]{\parbox[b]{3em}{\hfill#1\,}}
 \begin{threeparttable}
  \caption{My caption}
  \begin{tabular}{lcc}\toprule
                 & {Head 1}         & {Head 2} \\\midrule
   Observation 1 &  1.23\tnote{*}   &  1.23 \\
                 & (0.12)           & (0.12) \\
   Observation 2 &  1.23            &  1.23\tnote{**} \\ 
                 & (0.12)           & (0.12) \\
   Observation 3 &  1.23\tnote{***} &  1.23 \\
                 & (0.12)           & (0.12) \\
  \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
 \footnotesize
  \begin{tablenotes}
   \item[Notes:] Bla bla bla bla..
   \item[\tnote{***}] Significant at the
   \item[\tnote{**}] Significant at the
   \item[\tnote{*}] Significant at the
  \end{tablenotes}
 \end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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As a demonstration, here is an implementation using threeparttable:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,caption}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
  \begin{threeparttable}
    \caption{Sample ANOVA table}
     \begin{tabular}{lllll}
        \toprule
        Stubhead & \( df \) & \( f \) & \( \eta \) & \( p \) \\
        \midrule
                 &     \multicolumn{4}{c}{Spanning text}     \\
        Row 1    & 1        & 0.67    & 0.55       & 0.41    \\
        Row 2    & 2        & 0.02    & 0.01       & 0.39    \\
        Row 3    & 3        & 0.15    & 0.33       & 0.34    \\
        Row 4    & 4        & 1.00    & 0.76       & 0.54    \\
        \bottomrule
     \end{tabular}
    \begin{tablenotes}
      \small
      \item This is where authors provide additional information about
      the data, including whatever notes are needed.
    \end{tablenotes}
  \end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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Without an actual example of what your table looks like it is difficult to say whether this solution will work for you. But, you could incorporate each portion within a minipage to obtain the tablenotes besides the table. Here is a before and after comparison:

Before:

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After (with `minipages`):

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Notes:

I have not been able to figure out how to get the tablenotes section to span the remainder of the column. It seems that threeparttable fixes the width of the tablenotes section to match the table (which makes sense in normal usage), but there should be a way to override that and use the entire \linewidth.

Code:

The additional minipage code is marked in the MWE example below. Removing the indicated lines will produce the Before: image above.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{threeparttable}

\begin{document}
     \begin{table}%
       \begin{threeparttable}
         \caption{Table caption\tnote{1}} 
         \begin{minipage}{0.10\linewidth}% Added
         \begin{tabular}{ll} 
           \hline 
           Left Column 11 & Right Column 22\tnote{2}\\ 
           \hline 
           Left Column 21\tnote{3} & Right Column 22\\
                            & Right Column 22\tnote{4}\\ 
                            & Right Column 22\\ 
           \hline 
           Left Column 31 & Right Column 32\tnote{5}\\ 
                   & Right Column 33\\ 
           \hline 
           Left Column 41 & Right Column 42\tnote{6}\\ 
           \hline 
         \end{tabular}
         \end{minipage}% Added
         \hfill% Added
         \begin{minipage}{0.30\linewidth}% Added
         \begin{tablenotes}
            \item[1] Footnote text for caption;
            \item[2] Footnote text for second item;
            \item[3] Footnote text for third item; 
            \item[4] Footnote text for fourth item; 
            \item[5] Footnote text for fifth item; 
            \item[6] Footnote text for sixth item.
         \end{tablenotes}
         \end{minipage}% Added
       \end{threeparttable}
     \end{table}
\end{document}

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After (with minipages):

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