How to get distribution name from scipy.stats.distribution object in SciPy?

Question

I'm trying out a bunch of different fits for distributions.

Is there any way to get the name of the distribution back from the distribution object?

I found a way but it doesn't seem very efficient.

distribution = "gamma"

distr = getattr(stats, distribution)

print(distr)

# <scipy.stats._continuous_distns.gamma_gen object at 0x11688f518>

str(distr).split(".")[3].split("_")[0]

# 'gamma'

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Answer 1

Use the name attribute:

>>> from scipy import stats
>>> distribution = "gamma"
>>> distr = getattr(stats, distribution)
>>> distr.name
'gamma'

How to get distribution name from scipy.stats.distribution object in SciPy?

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