I have read some threads on this website saying that it is not OK to use Gower's dissimilarity matrix for Ward's clustering algorithm.
I have mixed type variables, first I had a dissimilarity matrix with Gower's formula in R (daisy function). I had a distance matrix, elements are between 0-1. So at the same time my data are standardized.
Then I used Ward's technique with hclust
function.
I had a good dendrogram. So, I used Gower to standardize my data set and than I used Wards method, why this way is not OK?