https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-do-I-do-hierarchical-clustering/m-p/251317#M56684 <P>If you can calculate a distance matrix (a dataset of type=distance) between your objects (observations or variables), then you can use proc cluster to do the hierarchical clustering. Check the data= option in the proc cluster statement doc.</P> Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:30:04 GMT PGStats 2016-02-20T02:30:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-do-I-do-hierarchical-clustering/m-p/251292#M56683 <DIV><DIV><P><FONT color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">We are trying to perform hierarchical clustering on ranked data (participants were asked to rank their preferences on a series of items). Which procedure is best to do this? VARCLUS appears to work more like factor analysis, and other clustering procedures only seem to cluster observations instead of variables. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks!</FONT></P></DIV></DIV> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:37:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-do-I-do-hierarchical-clustering/m-p/251292#M56683 sballa 2016-02-19T21:37:57Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-do-I-do-hierarchical-clustering/m-p/251317#M56684 <P>If you can calculate a distance matrix (a dataset of type=distance) between your objects (observations or variables), then you can use proc cluster to do the hierarchical clustering. Check the data= option in the proc cluster statement doc.</P> Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:30:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-do-I-do-hierarchical-clustering/m-p/251317#M56684 PGStats 2016-02-20T02:30:04Z