Launch the Cluster platform by selecting Analyze > Multivariate Methods > Cluster. The Cluster Launch dialog shown in Hierarchical Cluster Launch Dialog appears. The data table used is Birth Death Subset.jmp.
Hierarchical Cluster Launch Dialog
You can specify as many Y variables as you want by selecting the variables in the Select Columns list and clicking Y, Columns.
K-Means clustering only supports numeric columns. Hierarchical clustering supports character columns as follows.
For Hierarchical clustering, select Hierarchical from the Options list. For K-Means Clustering, Normal Mixtures, or Self Organizing Maps, select KMeans from the Options list.