[Python-checkins] Update potentially confusing note for mean. (GH-30174) (GH-30220)

Tue Dec 21 09:15:44 EST 2021

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/989d2371c8ff1c41e1b190a7df0a0d0231c2ae65
commit: 989d2371c8ff1c41e1b190a7df0a0d0231c2ae65
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: mdickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>
date: 2021年12月21日T14:15:39Z
summary:
Update potentially confusing note for mean. (GH-30174) (GH-30220)
(cherry picked from commit e9a01e231aae19fd1249368e477a60bc033b2646)
files:
M Doc/library/statistics.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst
index 3c3f9d2df5858..fd486191c0190 100644
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@@ -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
+ <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,
