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Can someone help me creating this table, I can't figure out how \multicolumn work. I can get to the first two rows of the table but no further. Please help.

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    Welcome to TeX.SX! Can you show us the code you have so far? You need to specify 18 columns in the table, using \multicolumn for the two first rows. Mar 11, 2014 at 16:14
  • Also, a tip: You can use backticks ` to mark your inline code as I did in my edit.
    – Adam Liter
    Mar 11, 2014 at 16:28

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With a tabular environment, you need to specify a column for each column in the most populated row. Then, where necessary, you can combine multiple columns together using the \multicolumn command.

The tabular should end up looking like this, with a total of 18 columns:

\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|*{18}{c|}}  % repeats {c|} 18 times
\hline
\multicolumn{9}{|c}{k-means clustering} & \multicolumn{9}{|c|}{Fuzzy c-means clustering} \\ \hline
\multicolumn{3}{|c}{50 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c}{60 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c}{70 clusters} & 
\multicolumn{3}{|c}{50 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c}{60 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{70 clusters} \\ \hline 
CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD \\ \hline
 & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & &  \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

tabular

Edit:

To use this in (one example of) a typical two-column environment, you would want to use the \begin{table*} environment, which allows the table to float across the two columns. Note that it will necessarily have to be place on the next page from where you call it, so you might have to make the call to the table earlier in the code than where you want to actually refer to it. This example uses the IEEEtran class to illustrate:

\documentclass[]{IEEEtran}

\usepackage{lipsum} % Dummy Text

\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\maketitle

\section{A Section}
\lipsum

\begin{table*}
\caption{The Caption}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|*{18}{c|}}
\hline
\multicolumn{9}{|c}{k-means clustering} & \multicolumn{9}{|c|}{Fuzzy c-means clustering} \\ \hline
\multicolumn{3}{|c}{50 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c}{60 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c}{70 clusters} & 
\multicolumn{3}{|c}{50 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c}{60 clusters} & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{70 clusters} \\ \hline 
CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD &CJ & HT & SVD \\ \hline
 & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & &  \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table*}

\section{A Second Section}
\lipsum

\end{document}

It appears as:

page1 page2

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    Alternatively you can use \begin{tabular}{|*{18}{c|}} for a more compact column definition.
    – sodd
    Mar 11, 2014 at 16:24
  • Indeed, forgot about that.
    – cslstr
    Mar 11, 2014 at 16:26
  • Thanks a lot Mr.cslstr, one more question, I dont want to use the landscape mode to put this table. I want to put this on a two column paper such that the table spans the two columns. Using \begin{table*} will be sufficient or not for a long table like this?
    – user47754
    Mar 11, 2014 at 16:28
  • See my edit. The important thing is the \begin{table*} environment; it should work with any two-column format, so long as your font sizes don't expand the table so much that it goes outside the given margins.
    – cslstr
    Mar 11, 2014 at 16:41
  • Thanks for your quick reply. I am using the \documentclass{intech-journal}. The table is constrained to the left. I cannot add picture in the comment. Shared it on dropbox. Thanks. dropbox.com/s/wn8qa858htu5q7u/texquestion.jpg
    – user47754
    Mar 11, 2014 at 16:50

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