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@@ -448,8 +448,8 @@ def average(a, axis=None, weights=None, returned=False):
Data to be averaged.
Masked entries are not taken into account in the computation.
axis : int, optional
- Axis along which the variance is computed. The default is to compute
- the variance of the flattened array.
+ Axis along which the average is computed. The default is to compute
+ the average of the flattened array.
weights : array_like, optional
The importance that each element has in the computation of the average.
The weights array can either be 1-D (in which case its length must be