I am completely new to LaTeX. I work in the TeXworks editor. I would like to create regression tables with results from Stata for my master's thesis. Using the Stata command "esttab", I created a .tex file with code for my table, however when I try to typeset the table to a pdf document, i always get an "!Undefined control sequence" error.
The following is the .tex file which is created by Stata, I only added the "\documentclass{article}", "\usepackage{booktabs}", "\begin{document}" and "\end{document}" commands.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]\centering
\def\sym#1{\ifmmode^{#1}\else\(^{#1}\)\fi}
\caption{Regressions Strictly Independent\tab{tab1}}
\begin{tabular}{l*{2}{c}}
\toprule
&\multicolumn{1}{c}{(1)}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{(2)}\\
&\multicolumn{1}{c}{Linear Regression}&\multicolumn{1}{c}
{Quadratic Regression}\\
\midrule
main & & \\
Strictly Independent& 0.0000152 & \\
& (0.720) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_Comp\_SHBased=0 & 0 & \\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_Comp\_SHBased=1 & -0.0106 & \\
& (0.110) & \\
\addlinespace
Relative Deal Value & -0.00958 & \\
& (0.118) & \\
\addlinespace
Log Board Size & -0.0109\sym{*} & \\
& (0.060) & \\
\addlinespace
Log Market Cap Acq & -0.00177\sym{**} & \\
& (0.046) & \\
\addlinespace
Average Director Tenure& 0.000415 & \\
& (0.381) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_BM=0 & 0 & \\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_BM=1 & -0.00525 & \\
& (0.458) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_Dual=0 & 0 & \\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_Dual=1 & -0.000284 & \\
& (0.902) & \\
\addlinespace
Dummy\_Tar\_Listed=0 & 0 & \\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
Dummy\_Tar\_Listed=1 & -0.00689\sym{***}& \\
& (0.007) & \\
\addlinespace
Country\_Dummy=0 & 0 & \\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
Country\_Dummy=1 & -0.00279 & \\
& (0.189) & \\
\addlinespace
Industry\_Dummy=0 & 0 & \\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
Industry\_Dummy=1 & 0.00913\sym{**} & \\
& (0.020) & \\
\addlinespace
Cash\_Dummy=0 & 0 & \\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
Cash\_Dummy=1 & 0.00626\sym{*} & \\
& (0.062) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_Comp\_SHBased=0 $\times$ Avg\_Tenure& 0 &
\\
& (.) & \\
\addlinespace
CEO\_Comp\_SHBased=1 $\times$ Avg\_Tenure& 0.00118\sym{*} &
\\
& (0.067) & \\
\addlinespace
Constant & 0.0693\sym{***}& 0.000223\sym{*} \\
& (0.001) & (0.092) \\
\midrule
b2 & & \\
Constant & & -0.00000251\sym{*} \\
& & (0.093) \\
\midrule
b3 & & \\
Constant & & 0.000124 \\
& & (0.953) \\
\midrule
b4 & & \\
Constant & & -0.00965\sym{**} \\
& & (0.019) \\
\midrule
b5 & & \\
Constant & & 0.0439\sym{**} \\
& & (0.011) \\
\midrule
b6 & & \\
Constant & & -0.0117\sym{***}\\
& & (0.001) \\
\midrule
b7 & & \\
Constant & & -0.00177\sym{**} \\
& & (0.042) \\
\midrule
b8 & & \\
Constant & & 0.000844\sym{**} \\
& & (0.012) \\
\midrule
b9 & & \\
Constant & & -0.00615 \\
& & (0.466) \\
\midrule
b10 & & \\
Constant & & -0.000139 \\
& & (0.951) \\
\midrule
b11 & & \\
Constant & & -0.00710\sym{***}\\
& & (0.008) \\
\midrule
b12 & & \\
Constant & & -0.00268 \\
& & (0.246) \\
\midrule
b13 & & \\
Constant & & 0.00895\sym{***}\\
& & (0.010) \\
\midrule
b14 & & \\
Constant & & 0.00618\sym{**} \\
& & (0.027) \\
\midrule
\(R^{2}\) & 0.051 & 0.055 \\
Adjusted \(R^{2}\) & 0.041 & 0.044 \\
F & 5.178 & \\
Observations & 1207 & 1207 \\
\bottomrule
\multicolumn{3}{l}{\footnotesize \textit{p}-values in parentheses}\\
\multicolumn{3}{l}{\footnotesize \sym{*} \(p<0.1\), \sym{**} \(p<0.05\),
\sym{***} \(p<0.01\)}\\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
The following is the error message I get:
("C:\Users\Ruben\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX
2.9\tex\latex\booktabs\booktabs.
sty")
No file Strict_Indep_3d_95.aux.
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...egressions Strictly Independent\tab
{tab1}}}{\thepage }}
l.9 ...Regressions Strictly Independent\tab{tab1}}
?
Can somebody help me please?
Remember, I am totally unexperienced with LaTeX/TeXworks/… I am just a guys who would like to have nice regression tables in his master's thesis.
Best Answer
If the
\tab
(which is not a command defined in any standard package as far as I know) part is being generated, stickbefore
\begin{document}
to define\tab
to be\label
.Note however the latex generator you are using would not have generated
\tab
by accident it possibly is intended to be used with a custom package that defines the commands it uses.