From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:15:39 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Update potentially confusing note for mean. (GH-30174) (GH-30220) X-Git-Tag: v3.10.2~58 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=989d2371c8ff1c41e1b190a7df0a0d0231c2ae65;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Update potentially confusing note for mean. (GH-30174) (GH-30220) (cherry picked from commit e9a01e231aae19fd1249368e477a60bc033b2646) --- diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index 3c3f9d2df585..fd486191c019 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,