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This section of my code causes compiling to take a very long time. Can any of you spot any reasons why this occurs?

% Table 6
\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering 
  \caption{} 
  \label{} 
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{25pt}} cccc} 
\\[-1.8ex]\hline 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
Event time & CAR & Std. err. & P-value \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
[-20,-11] & $0.002$ & $0.004$ & $0.545$ \\ 
[-10,-6] & $0.001$ & $0.002$ & $0.783$ \\ 
[-5,10] & $0.004$ & $0.004$ & $0.309$ \\ 
[11,20] & $0.002$ & $0.004$ & $0.594$ \\ 
[21,60] & $0.003$ & $0.007$ & $0.624$ \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
\end{tabular} 
\end{table}
thomas.diridondo
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    The contents of your first column are interpreted as optional arguments of \\. Since they don't contain a valid length, you end up with a document that does not compile properly. To overcome this, you could enclose the contents of each row's first cell in a set of {}. ({[-20,-11]} instead of [-20,-11].) See also: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64098/brackets-in-first-column-in-table-give-missing-number-treated-as-zero-error – leandriis Jan 04 '22 at 13:45
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    note that \hline \\[-1.8ex] is incorrect markup, there should be no \\ after \hline – David Carlisle Jan 04 '22 at 14:11
  • Perfect this solves my problem. Thank you very much. – thomas.diridondo Jan 05 '22 at 14:34

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