From a match (as produced by pairmatch or fullmatch) and a distance, extract the distances of matched units from their matched counterparts.

## Usage

matched.distances(matchobj, distance, preserve.unit.names = FALSE)

## Arguments

matchobj

Value of a call to pairmatch or fullmatch.

distance

Either a distance matrix or the value of a call to or match_on.

preserve.unit.names

Logical. If TRUE, for each matched set matched.distances returns the submatrix of the distance matrix corresponding to it; if FALSE, a vector containing the distances in that submatrix is returned.

## Value

A list of numeric vectors (or matrices) of distances, one for each matched set. Note that a matched set with 1 treatment and k controls, or with k treatments and 1 control, has k, not k+1, distances.

## Details

From a match (as produced by pairmatch or fullmatch) and a distance, extract the distances of matched units from their matched counterparts.

Ben B. Hansen

## Examples


data(plantdist)
plantsfm <- fullmatch(plantdist)
#> Warning: Without 'data' argument the order of the match is not guaranteed
#>     to be the same as your original data.
(plantsfm.d <- matched.distances(plantsfm,plantdist,pres=TRUE))
#> $1.1 #> I #> 0 #> #>$1.2
#> J
#> 0
#>
#> $1.3 #> L N P #> 4 6 9 #> #>$1.4
#> H K M O Q T
#> 7 8 2 6 0 4
#>
#> $1.5 #> R S V W #> 0 2 8 4 #> #>$1.6
#>  U  Z
#>  5 12
#>
#> \$1.7
#> X Y
#> 4 8
#>
unlist(lapply(plantsfm.d, max))
#> 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7
#>   0   0   9   8   8  12   8
mean(unlist(plantsfm.d))
#> [1] 4.684211