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On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> wrote:

> > +1 for consistency
>

What do other languages use?

Even though I generally prefer complete words instead of abbreviations, if
an abbreviation is a strong standard across many statistics modules (like
"stdev" instead of "standard_deviation"), then it's better to stay
consistent with that standard.