latex-empirical-tables

latex-empirical-tables is a skill for Claude Code from kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills. It costs 240 tokens per session (7,680 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and fixing LaTeX tables that show statistical results, such as regression estimates, in economics and finance papers. It covers output from tools such as Python, Stata, and R.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up results tables, reformat regression output, arrange significance stars and notes, combine table fragments, and diagnose LaTeX inclusion errors.
Why use it?
It helps prevent tables from running past the page, having poorly arranged notes or columns, or failing when included in a LaTeX document. It also explains common errors in exported table fragments.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the applied-micro plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up results tables, reformat regression output, arrange significance stars and notes, combine table fragments, and diagnose LaTeX inclusion errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills/latex-empirical-tables
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills --skill latex-empirical-tables
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install applied-micro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 240 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,680 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00240 $0.07680
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.03840
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.01536
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00768

Measured 13d ago against content hash 434ff0eaa4e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

latex-empirical-tables scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/applied-micro/skills/latex-empirical-tables/SKILL.md · 497 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 497 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LaTeX Empirical Tables

Empirical economics and finance papers export regression and estimation output as estout/esttab "body fragments" — rows of \multicolumn headers, coefficients with \sym stars, and parenthesised p-values or SEs, with no \toprule/\bottomrule — pulled into the manuscript through a wrapper macro (\estauto/\estwide/\estautoLT). Done well this reads like a top-journal table. Done naively it looks broken: wide tables spill past the right margin, the note legend is jammed inside the tabular as a boxed cell, columns sit at uneven widths, and \input-ed fragments throw "Misplaced \omit". This skill sets a results .tex up from scratch, converts ugly estout tables to the gold-standard pattern, and diagnoses the \omit error. The reasoning behind each choice is given so you can adapt rather than copy blindly.

Routing

You want to... Go to
Set up results.tex/main.tex and its preamble from scratch Section A
Fix or reformat existing estout tables (overflow, cramped notes, stars, alignment) Section B
Diagnose a "Misplaced \omit" error from an \input-ed fragment Section C
Merge several self-compiling block results.tex files into one master document Section D
Fix skipped table numbers (Table 1, Table 3, ...) when \captionof + longtable are combined Section D

Section A — Build a results document from scratch

When producing regression or estimation tables, follow this workflow to create a compilable LaTeX document with a standard empirical-economics preamble and estout macros.

Directory structure

All output lives under outline/ relative to the project root:

outline/
├── preamble/
│   └── preamble.tex    ← LaTeX preamble (no \begin{document})
├── Tables/
│   ├── table_01.tex    ← table fragments (auto-increment)
│   ├── table_02.tex
│   └── ...
├── Figures/
│   └── ...             ← figures (.pdf, .png, etc.)
└── results.tex         ← master document (created on first table)

Read the full file on GitHub · 497 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 497 lines · 240 tokens per session scan A 434ff0eaa4e9

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latex-empirical-tables is a skill published in the GitHub repository kennethkhoocy/applied-micro-skills (27 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 240 tokens to every session and 7,680 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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