1) Yes, Removing GROUPDISPLAY solved the problem. There was a WARNING in the log re: the GROUP option: WARNING: Limits are not allowed on bar charts when a group variable is used. The option will be ignored. I am fine w/ calculating the MEAN and STDDEV for the variables and using VBARPARM. Thanks for your help! ... View more

When I try to replicate this in v9.4 with the same code: proc sgpanel data=murdock.test; panelBy sex; vbarparm category=age_group response=meanNP / group=wave groupdisplay=cluster limitlower=lowNP limitupper=topNP; run;    receive this error msg: 71 proc sgpanel data=murdock.test; 72 panelBy sex; 73 vbarparm category=age_group response=meanNP / group=wave groupdisplay=cluster ------------ 22 76 ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, ATTRID, BARWIDTH, CLUSTERWIDTH, DATALABEL, DATALABELATTRS, DATASKIN, DISCRETEOFFSET, FILL, FILLATTRS, GROUP, GROUPORDER, LEGENDLABEL, LIMITATTRS, LIMITLOWER, LIMITUPPER, MISSING, NAME, NOFILL, NOOUTLINE, OUTLINE, TRANSPARENCY, URL. ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored. 74 limitlower=lowNP limitupper=topNP; 75 run; 71 proc sgpanel data=murdock.test; 72 panelBy sex; 73 vbarparm category=age_group response=meanNP / group=wave groupdisplay=cluster ------------ 22 76 ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, ATTRID, BARWIDTH, CLUSTERWIDTH, DATALABEL, DATALABELATTRS, DATASKIN, DISCRETEOFFSET, FILL, FILLATTRS, GROUP, GROUPORDER, LEGENDLABEL, LIMITATTRS, LIMITLOWER, LIMITUPPER, MISSING, NAME, NOFILL, NOOUTLINE, OUTLINE, TRANSPARENCY, URL. ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored. 74 limitlower=lowNP limitupper=topNP; 75 run; If I try PROC SGPANEL w/ VBAR, the excellent bar graph appears, but without error bars. proc sgpanel data=murdock.pals_v1_v2_phys_perf; panelBy sex; title1 font="helvetica/bold" 'PALS Usual Gait Speed (Age Group by Visit by Sex)'; vbar age_group / response=normal_pace groupdisplay=cluster dataskin=matte group=wave stat=mean limitstat=stddev; run;   Thanks, Andy ... View more