<p>I've only just really noticed the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/students-t" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;students-t&#39;" rel="tag">students-t</a> tag.</p>

<p>It has no tag wiki and appears to be being used for both the t-test and the t-distribution (with, at a quick glance, more using it to refer to the test). It is used in fewer posts to refer to the test than <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/t-test" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;t-test&#39;" rel="tag">t-test</a> and in fewer posts that refer to the distribution than <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/t-distribution" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;t-distribution&#39;" rel="tag">t-distribution</a>. I don't see a clear purpose to it outside those meanings. About 2/3 of its uses have been this year (7 and a bit months); for some reason it seems suddenly popular.</p>

<p>My suggestion: I think (i) any references to Student's t-distribution under <code>[students-t]</code> should be changed to <code>[t-distribution]</code>; and then (ii) <code>[students-t]</code> should become a synonym of <code>[t-test]</code>.</p>

<p>Given that it involves more than a handful of changes and its total number of uses is about the same as for <code>[t-test]</code>, I thought I should ask for views on this before doing anything hasty. What do you think?</p>

<p>(I haven't yet checked if I have enough answers in the right tags to do all these steps myself)</p>
