# What should we do with [inverse-cdf] and [quantiles]?

We have two closely related tags (18) and (334). Maybe instead we should have something like [quantile-function] synonym to [inverse-cdf] and [quantiles-empirical] for all the other questions? Or maybe we should rather make the two tags synonyms?

• What's the problem with having [quantile-function] and [quantiles]? – amoeba May 5 '17 at 12:06
• @amoeba there is no problem at all, I'm just asking if we can make it less ambiguous and avoid spreading the questions between the tags. – Tim May 5 '17 at 12:07
• To me [quantiles] sounds sufficiently different from [quantile-function] that I don't see much ambiguity. – amoeba May 5 '17 at 12:09
• However, there are a couple of dozens of questions that one could move from [quantiles] to [quantile-function] if we create it. See stats.stackexchange.com/…. – amoeba May 5 '17 at 12:12
• @amoeba most of them mention the "quantile() function" from base R so there is probably much less Q's to migrate. – Tim May 5 '17 at 12:52
• Even better.$\:$ – amoeba May 5 '17 at 13:12
• @amoeba I created [quantile-function] tag and suggested it as a synonym to [inverse-cdf]. – Tim May 5 '17 at 13:15
• Cool. Unfortunately, there are very few users who would be able to upvote (stats.stackexchange.com/tags/inverse-cdf/topusers), so we would need one of the mods to approve this synonym. – amoeba May 5 '17 at 13:17
• I'd say [quantile-function] is the same as [inverse-cdf] but [quantiles] is not a function – Glen_b May 5 '17 at 14:44
• @Glen_b that's the case, but among Q's tagged as [quantiles] it becomes blurry... Btw, as far as I can remember you're a mod and you could approve the tag synonym described above? – Tim May 5 '17 at 14:47
• @Tim I'd want to see some consensus or at least allow a chance for people to voice disagreement with it first. Just because I think it doesn't mean it should happen. If some questions tagged as [quantiles] should be tagged as something else, that would seem to be an argument for changing the tags on those questions. – Glen_b May 5 '17 at 14:50