#MULTIVALUE error in some cells only

I am getting #MULTIVALUE error in few cells in a cross-tab report whereas the rest of the cells show correct results. What can be the reason for this.
My cross tab report consists of : Physician(Dimension) as a Section, Metrics(dimension) in the rows and Month(dimension) as columns.
The body contains measures- Rate and Scale. Each Metric has got a defined scale of 0-4 based upon a range of the Rate.
Scale ia a variable created by me as =[Rating Scale] In ([Provider] Where([Rate] Between([Lower Target Pct];[Upper Target Pct]))
The report looks like:
                    Jan                   Feb                          Mar
              Rate Scale
Metric1
Metric2
When i try to include the Rate of YTD, the data in the Rate shows correct results wheares the Scale certain cells are appropriate but rest of them throughs #MULTIVALUE error.
I am not able to comprehend whats going wrong in here.
Can anyone pls resolve this issue.

Actually , there is no formula for Scale. Its in-built dimension but to get the correct result in the cross-tab( No irregularities are found for teh results in the horizontal and the vertical report format), I created the variable for scale as follows:
=Scale ForEach(Provider) Where(Rate Between Lower Target AND Upper Target). After using this variable, I got correct results for the monthly/quarterly data wheareas for the YTD it gives #MULTIVLAUE for few cells, where the scale is different for the every months./quarters. It gives correct result where the rate falls in teh same scale zone for all the months/quarters for a certain Metric.
For .Ex.
Metric                   Q1                           Q2                  Q3                      YTD
                     Rate     Scale
Tetanus        94         3                     92     3                91 3                 93       3
BRC              71        2                      91      3               98    4               83       #MULTIVALUE
I am not able to fathom that why its not taking the YTD into consideration even though I created a different variable for the scale of YTD in which I used the YTD(rate) instead of the actual(Rate).

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:
     The constructor MapTest(String[], String[]) is undefined
     ex.phonebook cannot be resolved or is not a field
     Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 5.0
     The type Map.Entry is not generic; it cannot be parameterized with arguments <String, String>
     ex.phonebook cannot be resolved or is not a field
     Syntax error, 'for each' statements are only available if source level is 5.0
     at mapa.MapTest.main(MapTest.java:24)

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