From 989d2371c8ff1c41e1b190a7df0a0d0231c2ae65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:15:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update potentially confusing note for mean. (GH-30174) (GH-30220) (cherry picked from commit e9a01e231aae19fd1249368e477a60bc033b2646) --- 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 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, -- 2.47.3