diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index 38a499ab37e..a6cbdd7695a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst +++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst @@ -105,10 +105,11 @@ 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,