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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-12-21 14:15:39 (GMT) |
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Update potentially confusing note for mean. (GH-30174) (GH-30220)
(cherry picked from commit e9a01e231aae19fd1249368e477a60bc033b2646)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index 3c3f9d2..fd48619 100644 --- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst +++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst @@ -116,10 +116,11 @@ However, for reading convenience, most of the examples show sorted sequences. .. note:: - The mean is strongly affected by outliers and is not a robust estimator - for central location: the mean is not necessarily a typical example of - the data points. For more robust measures of central location, see - :func:`median` and :func:`mode`. + The mean is strongly affected by `outliers + <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier>`_ and is not necessarily a + typical example of the data points. For a more robust, although less + efficient, measure of `central tendency + <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tendency>`_, see :func:`median`. The sample mean gives an unbiased estimate of the true population mean, so that when taken on average over all the possible samples, |