diff --git a/src/Numerics/Statistics/QuantileDefinition.cs b/src/Numerics/Statistics/QuantileDefinition.cs
index 6e7deeb7..71ecd70e 100644
--- a/src/Numerics/Statistics/QuantileDefinition.cs
+++ b/src/Numerics/Statistics/QuantileDefinition.cs
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.Statistics
 {
     public enum QuantileDefinition
     {
-        R1 = 1, SAS3 = 1, InverseCDF = 1,
-        R2 = 2, SAS5 = 2, InverseCDFAverage = 2,
+        R1 = 1, SAS3 = 1, EmpiricalInvCDF = 1,
+        R2 = 2, SAS5 = 2, EmpiricalInvCDFAverage = 2,
         R3 = 3, SAS2 = 3, Nearest = 3,
         R4 = 4, SAS1 = 4, California = 4,
         R5 = 5, Hydrology = 5, Hazen = 5,
diff --git a/src/Numerics/Statistics/Statistics.cs b/src/Numerics/Statistics/Statistics.cs
index d752ff5b..29851b4b 100644
--- a/src/Numerics/Statistics/Statistics.cs
+++ b/src/Numerics/Statistics/Statistics.cs
@@ -725,10 +725,10 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.Statistics
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="data">The data sample sequence.</param>
         /// <param name="tau">Quantile selector, between 0.0 and 1.0 (inclusive).</param>
-        public static double InverseCDF(this IEnumerable<double> data, double tau)
+        public static double EmpiricalInvCDF(this IEnumerable<double> data, double tau)
         {
             var array = data.ToArray();
-            return ArrayStatistics.QuantileCustomInplace(array, tau, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDF);
+            return ArrayStatistics.QuantileCustomInplace(array, tau, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDF);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -736,29 +736,29 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.Statistics
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="data">The data sample sequence.</param>
         /// <param name="tau">Quantile selector, between 0.0 and 1.0 (inclusive).</param>
-        public static double InverseCDF(this IEnumerable<double?> data, double tau)
+        public static double EmpiricalInvCDF(this IEnumerable<double?> data, double tau)
         {
-            return InverseCDF(data.Where(d => d.HasValue).Select(d => d.Value), tau);
+            return EmpiricalInvCDF(data.Where(d => d.HasValue).Select(d => d.Value), tau);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Estimates the empirical inverse CDF at tau from the provided samples.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="data">The data sample sequence.</param>
-        public static Func<double, double> InverseCDFFunc(this IEnumerable<double> data)
+        public static Func<double, double> EmpiricalInvCDFFunc(this IEnumerable<double> data)
         {
             var array = data.ToArray();
             Array.Sort(array);
-            return tau => SortedArrayStatistics.QuantileCustom(array, tau, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDF);
+            return tau => SortedArrayStatistics.QuantileCustom(array, tau, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDF);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Estimates the empirical inverse CDF at tau from the provided samples.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="data">The data sample sequence.</param>
-        public static Func<double, double> InverseCDFFunc(this IEnumerable<double?> data)
+        public static Func<double, double> EmpiricalInvCDFFunc(this IEnumerable<double?> data)
         {
-            return InverseCDFFunc(data.Where(d => d.HasValue).Select(d => d.Value));
+            return EmpiricalInvCDFFunc(data.Where(d => d.HasValue).Select(d => d.Value));
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/UnitTests/StatisticsTests/StatisticsTests.cs b/src/UnitTests/StatisticsTests/StatisticsTests.cs
index 16837ca8..8d7d4492 100644
--- a/src/UnitTests/StatisticsTests/StatisticsTests.cs
+++ b/src/UnitTests/StatisticsTests/StatisticsTests.cs
@@ -305,23 +305,23 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.StatisticsTests
         [TestCase(0.99d, 10d)]
         [TestCase(0.52d, 1d)]
         [TestCase(0.325d, 0d)]
-        public void QuantileR1InverseCDFOnShortSequence(double tau, double expected)
+        public void QuantileR1EmpiricalInvCDFOnShortSequence(double tau, double expected)
         {
             // R: quantile(c(-1,5,0,-3,10,-0.5,4,0.2,1,6),probs=c(0,1,0.5,0.2,0.7,0.01,0.99,0.52,0.325),type=1)
             // Mathematica: Quantile[{-1,5,0,-3,10,-1/2,4,1/5,1,6},{0,1,1/2,1/5,7/10,1/100,99/100,13/25,13/40},{{0,0},{1,0}}]
 
             var samples = new[] {-1, 5, 0, -3, 10, -0.5, 4, 0.2, 1, 6};
 
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.InverseCDF(samples, tau), 1e-14);
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.InverseCDFFunc(samples)(tau), 1e-14);
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDF), 1e-14);
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.QuantileCustomFunc(samples, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDF)(tau), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.EmpiricalInvCDF(samples, tau), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.EmpiricalInvCDFFunc(samples)(tau), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDF), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.QuantileCustomFunc(samples, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDF)(tau), 1e-14);
 
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, ArrayStatistics.QuantileCustomInplace(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDF), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, ArrayStatistics.QuantileCustomInplace(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDF), 1e-14);
             Assert.AreEqual(expected, ArrayStatistics.QuantileCustomInplace(samples, tau, 0d, 0d, 1d, 0d), 1e-14);
 
             Array.Sort(samples);
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, SortedArrayStatistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDF), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, SortedArrayStatistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDF), 1e-14);
             Assert.AreEqual(expected, SortedArrayStatistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, 0d, 0d, 1d, 0d), 1e-14);
         }
 
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.StatisticsTests
         [TestCase(0.99d, 10d)]
         [TestCase(0.52d, 1d)]
         [TestCase(0.325d, 0d)]
-        public void QuantileR2InverseCDFAverageOnShortSequence(double tau, double expected)
+        public void QuantileR2EmpiricalInvCDFAverageOnShortSequence(double tau, double expected)
         {
             // R: quantile(c(-1,5,0,-3,10,-0.5,4,0.2,1,6),probs=c(0,1,0.5,0.2,0.7,0.01,0.99,0.52,0.325),type=2)
             // Mathematica: Not Supported
@@ -344,10 +344,10 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.StatisticsTests
             Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.R2), 1e-14);
             Assert.AreEqual(expected, Statistics.QuantileCustomFunc(samples, QuantileDefinition.R2)(tau), 1e-14);
 
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, ArrayStatistics.QuantileCustomInplace(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDFAverage), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, ArrayStatistics.QuantileCustomInplace(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDFAverage), 1e-14);
 
             Array.Sort(samples);
-            Assert.AreEqual(expected, SortedArrayStatistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.InverseCDFAverage), 1e-14);
+            Assert.AreEqual(expected, SortedArrayStatistics.QuantileCustom(samples, tau, QuantileDefinition.EmpiricalInvCDFAverage), 1e-14);
         }
 
         [TestCase(0d, -3d)]