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I've reveiwed all the other threads on this topic and have not been able to figure it out. It must be something I'm completely missing.

I recieved the error above "Extra alignment tab has been changed to cr. }"

Here's a full reproducible code snippet

begintable[h!]
 resizebox5in!
 begintabular[h!]
 hline
 multicolumncDataset &
 multicolumn3cA &
 multicolumn3B & 
 hline


 bfseries Year & bfseries parameter & bfseries gof & bfseries p-value & bfseries parameter & bfseries gof & bfseries p-value \
 hline


1998 & 1.2661 & 0.4046 & 0.57 & 1.2889 & 0.3214 & 0.7 \ hline
1999 & 1.2685 & 0.4049 & 0.58 & 1.2913 & 0.3225 & 0.71 \ hline
2000 & 1.2681 & 0.4053 & 0.57 & 1.2942 & 0.321 & 0.71 \ hline
2001 & 1.2679 & 0.4082 & 0.56 & 1.2896 & 0.3208 & 0.71 \ hline
2002 & 1.2666 & 0.4098 & 0.55 & 1.2907 & 0.321 & 0.71 \ hline
2003 & 1.2673 & 0.4096 & 0.55 & 1.2849 & 0.3203 & 0.71 \ hline
2004 & 1.2678 & 0.409 & 0.57 & 1.2866 & 0.3187 & 0.72 \ hline

 endtabular
 
 caption[stuff]morestuff
 labeltable:all.models
endtable

Can anyone see something I'm not seeing?

Thank you in advance!

The immediate source of the error message is the line

multicolumn3B &

It should be

multicolumn3B \

Two additional observations:

• multicolumncDataset isn't correct either. It should be either multicolumn1cDataset or, much more simply, Dataset.




• The option [h!] in begintabular[h!] is meaningless and simply ignored. Valid options are t ("top"), c ("center" -- the default), and b ("bottom").

Addendum: If this were my table, I would strive hard to give it a much more open "look", mainly by omitting all vertical lines and using fewer, but well spaced, horizontal lines. There's no need for the resizebox "sledge hammer". Use a tabular* environment instead. I would also not bold-face the header cells, and I'd give more structure to the table's header material, and I'd align the numbers in the numerical columns on their respective decimal markers.

These ideas are implemented in the second table below.

documentclassarticle
usepackagegraphicx

usepackagebooktabs,siunitx
begindocument
begintable[h!]
resizebox5in!%
begintabular[h!]c
hline
Dataset &
multicolumn3A &
multicolumn3B \ 
hline
bfseries Year & bfseries parameter & 
bfseries gof & bfseries p-value & 
bfseries parameter & bfseries gof & 
bfseries p-value \
hline
1998 & 1.2661 & 0.4046 & 0.57 & 1.2889 & 0.3214 & 0.7 \ hline
1999 & 1.2685 & 0.4049 & 0.58 & 1.2913 & 0.3225 & 0.71 \ hline
2000 & 1.2681 & 0.4053 & 0.57 & 1.2942 & 0.321 & 0.71 \ hline
2001 & 1.2679 & 0.4082 & 0.56 & 1.2896 & 0.3208 & 0.71 \ hline
2002 & 1.2666 & 0.4098 & 0.55 & 1.2907 & 0.321 & 0.71 \ hline
2003 & 1.2673 & 0.4096 & 0.55 & 1.2849 & 0.3203 & 0.71 \ hline
2004 & 1.2678 & 0.409 & 0.57 & 1.2866 & 0.3187 & 0.72 \ hline
endtabular
% end of scope of resizebox instruction
caption[stuff]morestuff
labeltable:all.models
endtable

begintable[h!]
setlengthtabcolsep0pt
begintabular*5in@extracolsepfill l 
 *2*2S[table-format=1.4]S[table-format=1.2] 
toprule
Year & multicolumn6cDataset \
cmidrule2-7
& multicolumn3cA & multicolumn3cB \ 
cmidrule2-4 cmidrule5-7
& Parameter & gof & p-value & Parameter & gof & p-value \
midrule
1998 & 1.2661 & 0.4046 & 0.57 & 1.2889 & 0.3214 & 0.7 \ 
1999 & 1.2685 & 0.4049 & 0.58 & 1.2913 & 0.3225 & 0.71 \ 
2000 & 1.2681 & 0.4053 & 0.57 & 1.2942 & 0.321 & 0.71 \ 
2001 & 1.2679 & 0.4082 & 0.56 & 1.2896 & 0.3208 & 0.71 \ 
2002 & 1.2666 & 0.4098 & 0.55 & 1.2907 & 0.321 & 0.71 \ 
2003 & 1.2673 & 0.4096 & 0.55 & 1.2849 & 0.3203 & 0.71 \ 
2004 & 1.2678 & 0.409 & 0.57 & 1.2866 & 0.3187 & 0.72 \ bottomrule
endtabular*
captionA much more ``open'' look
labeltable:another_look
endtable
enddocument

Off-topic:

I would design your table on the following way:

(red lines indicate text borders)

documentclassarticle
usepackagebooktabs, % for nicer horizontal rules (toprule, cmidrule, midrule,bottomrule)
 makecell % for column headers (thesd)
renewcommandtheadfontbfseriessmall
renewcommandtheadgape
usepackagesiunitx % for S column type: numbers are aligned at decimal points

begindocument
 begintable[h!]
 setlengthtabcolsep0pt
begintabular*linewidth@extracolsepfill
 c
 *2S[table-format=1.4]
 S[table-format=1.2]
 *2S[table-format=1.4]
 S[table-format=1.2]
 
 toprule
Dataset & multicolumn3cA & multicolumn3cB \
 cmidrule2-4cmidrule5-7
theadYear & theadparameter & theadgof & theadp-value
 & theadparameter & theadgof & theadp-value \
 midrule
1998 & 1.2661 & 0.4046 & 0.57 & 1.2889 & 0.3214 & 0.7 \
1999 & 1.2685 & 0.4049 & 0.58 & 1.2913 & 0.3225 & 0.71 \
2000 & 1.2681 & 0.4053 & 0.57 & 1.2942 & 0.321 & 0.71 \
2001 & 1.2679 & 0.4082 & 0.56 & 1.2896 & 0.3208 & 0.71 \
2002 & 1.2666 & 0.4098 & 0.55 & 1.2907 & 0.321 & 0.71 \
2003 & 1.2673 & 0.4096 & 0.55 & 1.2849 & 0.3203 & 0.71 \
2004 & 1.2678 & 0.409 & 0.57 & 1.2866 & 0.3187 & 0.72 \
 bottomrule
 endtabular*
caption[stuff]morestuff
labeltable:all.models
 endtable
enddocument