.. 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,