I have 2 tables, one above the other. At the moment I can't make any space between them in my report. The strange thing is I moved them in to a new blank document with all the same preamble and \vspace
worked. I don't really know what the problem is but it's frustrating that they are stuck together. My tables are within a subsection of a section. My preamble and table code are below:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,reqno]{amsart}
\usepackage{tikz} % only needed if you include TpX drawings
\usepackage{graphicx} % only needed if you include graphics files other than TpX
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{example}{Example}
\numberwithin{figure}{section}
\numberwithin{equation}{section}
\numberwithin{table}{section}
\newcommand{\by}{\bf y}
\newcommand{\bx}{\bf X}
\newcommand{\T}{\text{T}}
\newcommand{\bb}[1]{{\bf#1}}
\newcommand{\bo}[1]{\boldsymbol{#1}}
\newcommand{\E}[1]{{\mathbb E}\left[ #1 \right]}
\newcommand{\Var}[1]{{\mathbb {V}}\left(#1 \right)}
\newcommand{\ssc}[1]{\ensuremath{^{\textrm{#1}}}}
\newenvironment{changemargin}[2]{%
\begin{list}{}{%
\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
\setlength{\leftmargin}{#1}%
\setlength{\rightmargin}{#2}%
\setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\itemindent}{\parindent}%
\setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}%
}%
\item[]}{\end{list}}
\setlength\extrarowheight{0pt}
\let\stdsection\section
\renewcommand\section{\newpage\stdsection}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}% to get subsubsections in toc
\let\oldtocsection=\tocsection
\let\oldtocsubsection=\tocsubsection
\let\oldtocsubsubsection=\tocsubsubsection
\renewcommand{\tocsection}[2]{\hspace{0em}\oldtocsection{#1}{#2}}
\renewcommand{\tocsubsection}[2]{\hspace{1em}\oldtocsubsection{#1}{#2}}
\renewcommand{\tocsubsubsection}[2]{\hspace{2em}\oldtocsubsubsection{#1}{#2}}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h!]
\caption{MCMC mixing results for the MH within Gibbs sampler} % title of Table
\centering % used for centering table
\bgroup
\def\arraystretch{2}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} % centered columns (4 columns)
\bb{Response}: & \bb{ESS} (\%) & \bb{Acceptance rate} (\%) \\ \hline
\bb{TST} & 100.0 & 52.90 \\
\bb{WASO} & 99.90 & 56.68 \\
\bb{N2} & 98.56 & 50.23 \\
\bb{R} & 99.33 & 63.19 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\egroup
\label{mix} % is used to refer this table in the text
\end{table}
\vspace*{10mm}
\begin{table}[h!]
\caption{MCMC mixing results for the strongest and weakest models for benchmark $g$ for response \bb{TST}.} % title of Table
\centering % used for centering table
\bgroup
\def\arraystretch{2}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} % centered columns (4 columns)
\bb{Model}: & \bb{ESS} (\%) & \bb{Acceptance rate} (\%) \\ \hline
Strongest & 87.04 & 69.3 \\
Weakest & 6.74 & 10.9 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\egroup
\label{mix2} % is used to refer this table in the text
\end{table}
\end{document}
Any help is appreciated.
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package to fill out with some text. – Andrew Swann Aug 28 '13 at 9:32