[Tex/LaTex] Making a nice table

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I have made following table which is not looking elegant. Could anybody help me in making it more better. Following is the tex code that I have used.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{amsmath, times, amsfonts, mathrsfs, amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath, times, amsfonts, mathrsfs, amssymb}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\small \caption{\small Computation of number of iterations and error norms for Example 4.2:}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c}
\hline
 Value of $\beta$ &  $k$  & $\|A^{-1} - X_{k}\|_2$ & $\|X_k  - X_{k-1}\|_2$   \\ [0.3ex] % inserts table
 &  & & &   &  & \\
 %
\hline
 0.9  & 0  &  0.489897948556636  & 0.462668212869655  \\
 & 1 &   0.044911860348910 & 0.044385148438250 \\
 & 2 &  6.418447480230614e-004 & 6.417891668548070e-004  \\
 & 3 &   5.683044758299918e-008 &   5.683044739894235e-008  \\
 & 4 &   1.861900614935455e-016 &   1.861900614935455e-016  \\
 & 5 &   0 &   0 \\  [1ex]
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:nonlin}
\end{table}
\end{document}

After running it looks like this

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This seems a job for booktabs and siunitx. The first provides good horizontal rules with appropriate spacing, the second is specialized in typesetting numbers with or without units of measure.

Type S columns make alignments at the decimal point; one can specify the number format:

table-format=1.15

means one digit for the integer part and 15 for the fractional part;

table-figures-exponent=2

means "keep two digits for the exponent";

table-sign-exponent=true

means that the exponent can be negative.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,mathrsfs,amssymb}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} % better than "times"
\usepackage{booktabs} % pretty tables
\usepackage{siunitx}  % number formatting

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering\small 

\caption{Computation of number of iterations and error norms for Example 4.2}
\medskip

\begin{tabular}{
  c
  c
  *{2}{
   S[table-format=1.15,
     table-figures-exponent=2,
     table-sign-exponent=true]
  }
}
\toprule
Value of $\beta$ &
  $k$ &
  {$\|A^{-1} - X_{k}\|_2$} &
  {$\|X_k  - X_{k-1}\|_2$} \\
\midrule
0.9 & 0 &  0.489897948556636      & 0.462668212869655      \\
    & 1 &  0.044911860348910      & 0.044385148438250      \\
    & 2 &  6.418447480230614e-004 & 6.417891668548070e-004 \\
    & 3 &  5.683044758299918e-008 & 5.683044739894235e-008 \\
    & 4 &  1.861900614935455e-016 & 1.861900614935455e-016 \\
    & 5 &  0                      & 0                      \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{table:nonlin}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Making nice tables

Some suggestions, in no particular order.

Engage in as little visual formatting as possible. It's much better to set some top-level parameters and let LaTeX do the formatting.
Numeric data with decimal markers tend to be easier to read if they're aligned on the decimal markers.
Use the facilities of the caption package to format the caption to your liking.
You'll get a much better look the line-drawing macros of the booktabs package -- \toprule, \cmidrule, \midrule and \bottomrule -- than with the basic LaTeX commands \hline and \cline.
Don't overuse bold-face. For readability, a table primarily needs to be laid out very well. Bold-facing should hardly ever be necessary.
Using a tabularx environment instead of the more basic tabular environment will simplify making the 6 data columns all have the same widths.
For footnote-like material at the bottom of a table, use \footnotesize -- or \small if you think that \footnotesize makes the contents look to, well, small.
One formatting choice I'd question in the screenshot you posted is the left-aligning of the entries in the data columns. I think that centering would be a more natural choice. The following code and screenshot shows both looks. I think the second table, which centers the contents of the data columns, is more visually balanced. In terms of code, it differs from the first tabularx environment only in the use of \mC instead of \mX wrapper macros. (\mC and \mX are defined in the preamble as handy shortcut macros.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,dcolumn,booktabs,caption,ragged2e,geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,margin=2.5cm} % set page and textblock parameters
\captionsetup{justification = RaggedRight, singlelinecheck=false,
              font = bf, skip = 0.33\baselineskip}
\newcolumntype{d}[1]{D..{#1}} % for aligning numerical data on decimal marker
\newcommand\mX[1]{\multicolumn{1}{X}{#1}} % handy shortcut macro
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\Centering\arraybackslash}X}
\newcommand\mC[1]{\multicolumn{1}{C}{#1}} % another handy shortcut macro

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[t]
\caption{Baseline OLS and 2SLS results. Contents of data columns left-aligned.}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}l*{6}{d{1.5}}@{}}
\toprule
& \mX{(1)} & \mX{(2)} & \mX{(3)} & \mX{(4)} & \mX{(5)} & \mX{(6)}  \\
\cmidrule(l){2-7}
& \mX{OLS} & \mX{OLS} & \mX{OLS} & \mX{OLS} & \mX{2SLS} & \mX{2SLS}  \\
\midrule
Tax identification number (TIN) 
   & 0.533^{***} & & & & & 1.376^{**}\\
   & (0.12)      & & & & & (0.66)\\
Constant 
   & 8.020^{***} & & & & & 7.367^{***} \\
   & (0.58)      & & & & & (0.86)\\
Observations & \mX{404} & & & & & \mX{369}\\
R\textsuperscript{2} & \mX{0.21} & & & & & \\
First-stage F-statistic & & & & & 10.77 & 12.77 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}

\medskip
\footnotesize
Dependent variable: log monthly profits.

Robust standard errors in parentheses.

$^{*}$, $^{**}$ and $^{***}$ indicate significance \dots

Instrument in columns (5) \dots

(1) Baseline OLS, (2) \dots

Control estimates left out of table.

See: Table 4 in \dots
\end{table}


\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Baseline OLS and 2SLS results. Contents of data columns centered.}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}l*{6}{d{1.5}}@{}}
\toprule
& \mC{(1)} & \mC{(2)} & \mC{(3)} & \mC{(4)} & \mC{(5)} & \mC{(6)}  \\
\cmidrule(l){2-7}
& \mC{OLS} & \mC{OLS} & \mC{OLS} & \mC{OLS} & \mC{2SLS} & \mC{2SLS}  \\
\midrule
Tax identification number (TIN) 
   & 0.533^{***} & & & & & 1.376^{**}\\
   & (0.12)      & & & & & (0.66)\\
Constant 
   & 8.020^{***} & & & & & 7.367^{***} \\
   & (0.58)      & & & & & (0.86)\\
Observations & \mC{404} & & & & & \mC{369}\\
R\textsuperscript{2} & \mC{0.21} & & & & & \\
First-stage F-statistic & & & & & 10.77 & 12.77 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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