[SciPy-User] Why is Ward limited to Euclidean/full data matrix?

[Juan Nunez-Iglesias]

The Wikipedia page seems to suggest that Ward's method can be implemented
just from the distance matrix. Why is it restricted to using the full
dataset and only Euclidean distance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward's_method#Lance.E2.80.93Williams_algorithms
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/attachments/20150629/857e6d96/attachment.html>