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## Conversion between abbreviated distribution names and proper names

### Description

The function `distr2name` converts abbreviated distribution names to proper distribution names (e.g. `"norm"` becomes `"Gaussian"`).

The function `name2distr` does the reciprocal operation.

### Usage

    distr2name(x)

    name2distr(x)

### Arguments

`x` | character. A vector of abbreviated distribution names or proper distribution names.

### Value

A character vector of the same length as `x`. Elements of `x` that are not recognized are kept unchanged.

### Examples

    distr2name(c("norm", "dnorm", "rhyper", "ppois"))
    name2distr(c("Cauchy", "Gaussian", "Generalized Extreme Value"))

[Package statip version 0.2.0 Index]