From e9a01e231aae19fd1249368e477a60bc033b2646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Dickinson Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:00:53 +0000 Subject: Update potentially confusing note for mean. (GH-30174) --- Doc/library/statistics.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index 8638abf..4cd983b 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 + `_ and is not necessarily a + typical example of the data points. For a more robust, although less + efficient, measure of `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, -- cgit v0.12