Use the Data Filter to interactively select complex subsets of data, hide these subsets in plots, or exclude them from analyses. For example, look at profit per employee for computer and pharmaceutical companies.
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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Companies.jmp.
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Select Analyze > Distribution.
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Select profit/emp and click Y, Columns.
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From the red triangle menu for profit/emp, select Display Options > Horizontal Layout.
Distribution of profit/emp
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Turn on Automatic Recalc by selecting Redo > Automatic Recalc from the red triangle menu for Distributions.
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In the data table, select Rows > Data Filter.
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Select Type and click Add.
Filter for Computer Companies

Help created on 9/19/2017