disable automatic table numbering for esttab

[Elliot Oh]

Hi,

I am using esttab to generate latex tables.

Basically, I run the following command

eststo: estpost summarize atq, detail
esttab using "sumstat_firm.tex", replace lines cells("count(fmt(0)) mean(fmt(2)) sd(fmt(2)) p1(fmt(2)) p5(fmt(2)) p25(fmt(2)) p50(fmt(2)) p75(fmt(2)) p95(fmt(2)) p99(fmt(2))") nomtitle title("Firm Statistics 1988-2010") nonumber collabels("Nobs" "Mean" "SD" "1\%" "5\%" "25\%" "Median" "75\%" "95\%" "99\%") noobs label

I obtain a latex table like this

\begin{table}[htbp]\centering

\def\sym#1{\ifmmode^{#1}\else\(^{#1}\)\fi}

\caption{Firm Statistics 1988-2010}

\begin{tabular}{l*{1}{cccccccccc}}

\hline\hline

& Nobs& Mean& SD& 1\%& 5\%& 25\%& Median& 75\%& 95\%& 99\%\\

\hline

Assets (M \$) & 341341& 1609.43& 5024.70& 4.46& 11.62& 51.42& 176.20& 752.60& 7648.10& 36465.00\\
\hline\hline

\end{tabular}

\end{table}

I want to change \caption{Firm Statistics 1988-2010} to \caption*{Firm Statistics 1988-2010} using a esttab setting. I have not found anything on the esttab documentation that allows for this. Is there any way I disable the automatic caption numbering?

[Andrew Musau]

See the -substitute()- option. Note that estout is from SSC, as you are asked to explain in FAQ Advice #12.