diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst
index fc99d818d57..463bcf41c6a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ Exceptions
 
 A single exception is defined:
 
-.. exception:: `StatisticsError`
+.. exception:: StatisticsError
 
    Subclass of :exc:`ValueError` for statistics-related exceptions.