I am using the dcolumn package in LaTeX to align by ".". It works well with
\newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{.}{-1}}
\begin{tabular}{l . . . . . . . . . }
However, I want to include the standard errors of the estimates using \underset{std}{est}.
This causes problems and I can't find a fix. One way around it is to create separate rows for the standard errors. This does not look as nice though. Is there a way around combining \underset and dcolumn or am I facing a trade-off?
Thanks, to illustrate, these two examples will work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{l c }
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{Est.} \\
$\alpha$ & $\underset{(2.21)}{22.12}$ \\
$\beta$ & $\underset{(1.82)}{0.32}$ \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
and
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{.}{-1}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{l . }
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{Est.} \\
$\alpha$ & $22.12$ \\
$\beta$ & $1.82$ \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
... but the combination does not
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{.}{-1}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{l . }
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{Est.} \\
$\alpha$ & $\underset{2.21}{22.12}$ \\
$\beta$ & $\underset{1.82}{0.32}$ \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
dcolumnworks means that this is pretty much doomed to failure. I'd just use two rows and align them properly: is there a reason you can't do that? – Joseph Wright Mar 16 '13 at 10:11