# Does the beta tag need clarification?

Right now the 'beta' tag refers to the distribution of that name. Does it need clarification or amendment to deal with beta as used in finance (a measure of risk, I think).

It would do no harm to add a clarification inside the tag wiki, such as:

Tag usage

Do not use this tag for Beta as measurement of how much an asset return can be predicted by a benchmark (finance context). Consider using the tags , and/or , instead.

This was just a rough suggestion (both wiki amendment and beta-risk tag).

It seems there are no current threads labelled outside the beta-distribution concept.
This is why I am suggesting to add the clarification inside the wiki and not inside the excerpt (but no objection using the excerpt, if one prefers).

Doing a research by [finance] beta is:question it returned 4 questions. I believe the newest one is a candidate to place the new tag, if it is the case.

Can I run a regression where dependents are coefficients from other regression and independents are R squared from these regressions?