<h2>Signed-rank-test to Wilcoxon-signed-rank test</h2>
<p>[This answer was originally posted as a separate <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4680/3277">question</a> (you still can see comments there) and now transferred to here as an answer. It is my request about the <em>tags</em> of two &quot;Wilcoxon&quot; tests, independent-sample and paired-sample.]</p>
<p>Moderators, please rename tag <code>signed-rank-test</code> (Wilcoxon paired sample test) to <code>wilcoxon-signed-rank</code>. We have curently such tag, but it is a junior synonym of <code>signed-rank-test</code>. So, please appoint <code>wilcoxon-signed-rank</code> to be the main tag and <code>signed-rank-test</code> its junior synonym: revert.</p>
<p>For the unpaired Wilcoxon, we have nice tag <code>wilcoxon-mann-whitney</code>. Thence it is logical to have <code>wilcoxon-signed-rank</code> as its paired counterpart.</p>
<p>Note that <code>signed-rank-test</code> <em>isn't optimal</em> because it doesn't mention &quot;Wilcoxon&quot;. It thus can be confused with the sign test. Besides, there exist other, less known, rank tests based on signs of the rank differences, which adds to the confusion. Finally, a number of software (SPSS for example) and books use name &quot;Wilcoxon&quot; <em>only</em> with the paired signed-rank test and never with the unpaired test which they call &quot;Mann-Whitney&quot;; it might be an argument to state that &quot;Wilcoxon&quot; have stronger - at least not lesser - belonging to the paired test than to the unpaired and therefore should be included into the tag of the paired test.</p>
<p>An alternative name: create <code>wilcoxon-paired-test</code> instead of <code>wilcoxon-signed-rank</code>, if you would like it better. I like both variants of the tag name.</p>
