Column headers with Greek symbols using etable command

[Richard Thomas Boylan]

I was wondering how I can add Greek symbols using the etable command.
Below, I have included an example of the type of latex table that I would like to construct.

However, instead of the column header being "Systolic blood pressure", I would like the column header to be
"\% \Delta Systolic blood pressure." I have tried different methods but none has worked.

use https://www.stata-press.com/data/r18/nhanes2l

quietly: regress bpsystol i.sex weight
estimates store model1
quietly: regress diabetes i.sex i.agegrp weight
estimates store model2
etable, est(model1 model2)
etable, replay eqrecode(bpsystol = xb diabetes = xb) column(dvlabel)
collect style tex , nobegintable
collect export example.tex, tableonly replace

[Andrew Musau]

Thanks for the reproducible example. You should do this using collect. See

help collect label

use https://www.stata-press.com/data/r18/nhanes2l
quietly: regress bpsystol i.sex weight
estimates store model1
quietly: regress diabetes i.sex i.agegrp weight
estimates store model2
etable, est(model1 model2)
etable, replay eqrecode(bpsystol = xb diabetes = xb) column(dvlabel)
*CHECK NAMED DIMENSIONS AND THEIR LEVELS
collect dims
collect levelsof etable_dvlabel
*RELABEL (UNICODE CHARACTERS ALLOWED)
collect label levels etable_dvlabel 1 "% `=ustrunescape("\u0394")' Systolic blood pressure" 2 "Diabetes", modify

Res.:

. collect preview

-----------------------------------------------------------
                       % Δ Systolic blood pressure Diabetes
-----------------------------------------------------------
Sex                                                        
  Female                                     1.420    0.021
                                           (0.475)  (0.004)
Weight (kg)                                  0.452    0.001
                                           (0.015)  (0.000)
Age group                                                  
  30–39                                               0.002
                                                    (0.007)
  40–49                                               0.020
                                                    (0.007)
  50–59                                               0.042
                                                    (0.007)
  60–69                                               0.073
                                                    (0.006)
  70+                                                 0.105
                                                    (0.008)
Intercept                                   97.634   -0.089
                                           (1.246)  (0.012)
Number of observations                       10351    10349
-----------------------------------------------------------

.

[Richard Thomas Boylan]

Thanks! However, I should have specified that the table needs to go in a LateX document so the special character for delta
`=ustrunescape("\u0394")' is not going to be readable. It needs to be $\Delta$.

[Andrew Musau]

So have that!

collect label levels etable_dvlabel 1 "\% $\Delta$ Systolic blood pressure", modify

My point is to show how you can modify the label.

[Richard Thomas Boylan]

I was able produce the table I need using a prior post by Andrew Musau and the estabb command the substitute option. However, I was wondering if there is a way to do that with etable.

[Richard Thomas Boylan]

The command
collect label levels etable_dvlabel 1 "\% $\Delta$ Systolic blood pressure", modify Is not going to work since I lead to extra "" that create problems in Latex. It seems to me that one needs some command to get rid of these like the command
substitute("\_" "_")
which you discuss in https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...n-extra-to-tex

[Andrew Musau]

Try this:

collect label levels etable_dvlabel 1 "% \(\Delta\) Systolic blood pressure", modify

You can use

\( \)

instead of

$ $

for inline math mode in LaTeX.

Res.:

\begin{table}[!h]

\centering

\begin{tabular}{lll}

\cline{1-3}

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{c}{\% \(\Delta\) Systolic blood pressure} &

\multicolumn{1}{c}{Diabetes status} \\

\cline{1-3}

\multicolumn{1}{l}{Sex} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{\hspace{1em}Female} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{1.420} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.021} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.475)} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.004)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{Weight (kg)} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.452} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.001} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.015)} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.000)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{Age group} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{\hspace{1em}30–39} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.002} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.007)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{\hspace{1em}40–49} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.020} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.007)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{\hspace{1em}50–59} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.042} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.007)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{\hspace{1em}60–69} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.073} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.006)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{\hspace{1em}70+} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{0.105} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.008)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{Intercept} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{97.634} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{-0.089} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(1.246)} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{(0.012)} \\

\multicolumn{1}{l}{Number of observations} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{10351} &

\multicolumn{1}{r}{10349} \\

\cline{1-3}

\end{tabular}

\end{table}

[Richard Thomas Boylan]

Andrew, this works perfectly. Thanks you for your patience!!!