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documentclass{article}

usepackage{tabularx,multirow,booktabs}

begin{document}   

 begin{table}[h]

    centering

    begin{tabular}{@{}ccccccccc@{}}

    toprule

    multicolumn{2}{c}{} & multicolumn{7}{c}{bfseries COLUMN}\

    multicolumn{2}{c}{} & textbf{x} & & textbf{y} & & textbf{z} && x\

    multirow{3}{*}{bfseries ROW} & textbf{p} & 6 &$>$& 4 &$<$& 5 &$<$&6\

     & textbf{q} & 5 &$<$& 16 &$>$& 5 &=& 5\

     & textbf{r} & 2 &$<$& 4 &$>$& -7 &$<$& 2\

     bottomrule

    end{tabular}

    caption{Strategies}

    label{tab:dominantColumn}

    end{table}

end{document}

I want to do this type of comparison for row wise also. How can I put the symbol (90 degree shifted needed). > changed to v and < change to ^.

I need to something like this.

begin{table}[h]

centering

begin{tabular}{@{}ccccc@{}}

toprule

multicolumn{2}{c}{} & multicolumn{3}{c}{bfseries COLUMN}\

multicolumn{2}{c}{} & textbf{x} & textbf{y} & textbf{z}\

multirow{4}{*}{bfseries ROW} & textbf{p} & 6 & 4 & 5\

&&&&\%here the symbo

 & textbf{q} & 5 & 16 & 5\

 &&&&\%here the symbo

 & textbf{r} & 2 & 4 & -7\

 &&&&\%here the symbol

 & textbf{p} & 6 & 4 & 5\

 bottomrule

end{tabular}

caption{Strategies}

label{tab:dominantRow}

end{table}

rotatebox from graphicx can do it for you. Here I only add one "^" and one "v". To make the symbol accurately centered, you may need option origin=c, as suggested by @leandriis in his comment.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{booktabs}

usepackage{multirow}

usepackage{graphicx}

newcommanddownsym{rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{$<$}}

newcommandupsym{rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{$>$}}

begin{document}

begin{table}[h]

centering

begin{tabular}{@{}ccccc@{}}

toprule

multicolumn{2}{c}{} & multicolumn{3}{c}{bfseries COLUMN}\

multicolumn{2}{c}{} & textbf{x} & textbf{y} & textbf{z}\

multirow{4}{*}{bfseries ROW} & textbf{p} & 6 & 4 & 5\

&&&&\%here the symbo

 & textbf{q} & 5 & 16 & 5\

 &downsym&&&\%here the symbo

 & textbf{r} & 2 & 4 & -7\

 &&&upsym&\%here the symbol

 & textbf{p} & 6 & 4 & 5\

 bottomrule

end{tabular}

caption{Strategies}

label{tab:dominantRow}

end{table}

end{document}

Here is a different approach using the symbols vee and wedge:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{multirow,booktabs}

begin{document}

begin{table}[h]

centering

begin{tabular}{@{}ccccc@{}}

toprule

& & multicolumn{3}{c}{bfseries COLUMN}\

& & textbf{x} & textbf{y} & textbf{z}\

multirow{7}{*}{bfseries ROW} & textbf{p} & 6 & 4 & 5\

&&$vee$&$wedge$&\%here the symbo

 & textbf{q} & 5 & 16 & 5\

 &&&&\%here the symbo

 & textbf{r} & 2 & 4 & -7\

 &&&&\%here the symbol

 & textbf{p} & 6 & 4 & 5\

 bottomrule

end{tabular}

caption{Strategies}

label{tab:dominantRow}

end{table}

end{document}

Please note, that I have changed multirow{4} to multirow{7} in order to vertically center ROW. You might also want to keep in mind that the z column is wider than the x and y column. This is because the fcolumn header is wider than the combined width of the three columns. If you want to get rid of this, you might be interested in Table column widths disproportionate due to multicolumn cell being too long