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\title{\LaTeX\, Examples: \\ Tables and Figures}
 \vspace*{10mm}
Creating a table, such as Table~\ref{tb:tone}, is fairly
straightforward and simply a matter of filling in pieces.
%\begin{table}
\begin{center}
%\caption{\footnotesize This is the first Table.}
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c}\hline \hline
     & $\phi$ & $\rho$ & $\alpha$ \\ \hline
    MLE & 0.520 & 0.425 & 0.348 \\
        & (0.009) & (0.028) & (0.021) \\
        & $<$ 0.001 & $<$ 0.001 & $<$ 0.001 \\ \hline
    QLS & 0.519 & 0.324 & 0.390 \\
        & (0.009) & (0.042) & (0.021) \\
        & $<$ 0.001 & $<$ 0.001 & $<$ 0.001 \\ \hline
\end{tabular} \label{tb:tone}
\end{center}
%\end{table}
It is important to note that writing in the ``Tabular'' setting is
not friendly to mathematical expressions, and thus we must use (\$)
as if we were writing in text.

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Like tables, figures are relatively easy to incorporate into a
document, such as Figure~\ref{gr:figone}.  One thing you should note
is that you must turn on the ``Graphics'' package located in the
preamble.  Also note that the ``caption'' command  gives
Figure~\ref{gr:figone} a title.
\begin{center}
\begin{figure}
    \includegraphics[width=4.0in]{Figures/2areMLMOrho}
    \caption{Generic Graph}
    \label{gr:figone}
\end{figure}
\end{center}
The figure will be automatically placed by \LaTeX.



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