Re: st: Distance from home to hospital [originally no subject]

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

Your later message came in while I was typing my last message.

I see your method.  It does a 1-1 merge. There is no logical 
connection of a person to the hospital -- and that seemed wrong at 
first, but that's irrelevant; you are ignoring that "connection". 
Virtually, you have two distinct datasets in memory concurrently.

Thanks for an interesting approach.
--David

At 11:21 PM 1/3/2007, you wrote:

> David and Kelly--
> Just in case my last post wasn't crystal clear, here is an example
> using faked data and a quick-n-dirty distance calculation (if I've
> done this right, the -merge- approach does not depend on having more
> patients than hospitals, or vice versa):
> [...]
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