Column height in a table

Question

I want to make a table like this:

And i tried it with following code:

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|lc|l|lc|}
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-5}
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{(1)}                        & \multirow{4}{*}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{(2)}              \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{\((1 - p)^{160}\)} & $\Box$ &                   & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\(1 - \bigg[
    \binom{160}{0} \cdot p^0 \cdot (1-p)^{160} + 
    \binom{160}{1} \cdot p^1 \cdot (1-p)^{159}
    \bigg]\)} & $\Box$ \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{\(p^{160}\)}       & $\Box$ &                   & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\(\binom{160}{2} \cdot p^2 \cdot (1-p)^{158}\)} & $\Box$ \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{\((1 - p)^{160}\)} & $\Box$ &                   & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\(\binom{160}{0} \cdot p^0 \cdot (1-p)^{160} + 
    \binom{160}{1} \cdot p^1 \cdot (1-p)^{159}\)} & $\Box$ \\ \cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

and it looks like this:

Answer 1

Here's a solution that employs typographic struts to assure equal heights for rows 2 thru 4. It also uses an array environment instead of a tabular environment in order to eliminate the multitude of \(, \) and $ directives. It further does away with the pointless \multirow{4}{*}{} directive. Finally, it changes the column specification from {|lc|l|lc|} to {|l|c|l|l|c|} in order to do away with all \multicolumn{1}{|l|} wrappers.

\documentclass{article} % or some other suitable document class
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{amsmath}    % for '\binom' macro
\usepackage{amssymb}    % for '\Box' macro
% Define a typographic strut:
\newcommand\tallstrut{$\vphantom{\Big[}$} % for rows 2-4

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
\[
\begin{array}{|l|c|l|l|c|}
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-5}
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{(1)} & & 
\multicolumn{2}{ c|}{(2)}\\ 
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
(1 - p)^{160} & \Box\tallstrut & & 
1 - \bigl[ \binom{160}{0} \cdot p^0 \cdot (1-p)^{160} + 
           \binom{160}{1} \cdot p^1 \cdot (1-p)^{159}
    \bigr] & \Box \\ 
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
p^{160}       & \Box\tallstrut & & 
\binom{160}{2} \cdot p^2 \cdot (1-p)^{158} & \Box \\ 
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
(1 - p)^{160} & \Box\tallstrut & & 
\binom{160}{0} \cdot p^0 \cdot (1-p)^{160} + 
\binom{160}{1} \cdot p^1 \cdot (1-p)^{159} & \Box \\ 
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-5} 
\end{array}
\]
\end{table}
\end{document}