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Summary Report for:
35-3011.00 - Bartenders
Mix and serve drinks to patrons, directly or through waitstaff.
Sample of reported job titles: Bartender, Bar Manager, Mixologist, Bar Captain, Bartender Extra
Tasks | Tools & Technology | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Collect money for drinks served.
- Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol.
- Clean glasses, utensils, and bar equipment.
- Balance cash receipts.
- Attempt to limit problems and liability related to customers' excessive drinking by taking steps such as persuading customers to stop drinking, or ordering taxis or other transportation for intoxicated patrons.
- Stock bar with beer, wine, liquor, and related supplies such as ice, glassware, napkins, or straws.
- Serve wine, and bottled or draft beer.
- Take beverage orders from serving staff or directly from patrons.
- Clean bars, work areas, and tables.
- Mix ingredients, such as liquor, soda, water, sugar, and bitters, to prepare cocktails and other drinks.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
Carbonated beverage dispenser — Draught foam control devices; Electronic beer line maintenance equipment; Refrigerated liquid recirculation systems; Soda dispensers |
Cocktail shakers or accessories — 3-piece cocktail shakers; 4-piece cocktail shakers; Pour spouts; Spirit measures |
Commercial use blenders — Blenders; Mojito machines |
Commercial use cutlery — Fruit knives; Lime slicers; Olive stuffers |
Commercial use strainers — 4-prong strainers; Cocktail strainers; Hawthorn strainers; Julep strainers |
Ice shaver machines or accessories — Ice chippers; Ice crushers; Ice flakers |
Point of sale POS terminal — Point of sale POS terminals; Point of service workstations |
Technology used in this occupation:
Data base user interface and query software — AZZ CardFile software |
Internet browser software — Web browser software |
Point of sale POS software — Focus point of sale POS software; ICVERIFY software; Intuit QuickBooks Point of Sale; NCR NeighborhoodPOS |
Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. |
Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. |
Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people. |
Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. |
Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
Work Activities
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials. |
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
Work Context
Contact With Others — How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
Spend Time Standing — How much does this job require standing? |
Deal With External Customers — How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
Face-to-Face Discussions — How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
Work With Work Group or Team — How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
Structured versus Unstructured Work — To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
Frequency of Decision Making — How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
Freedom to Make Decisions — How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
Physical Proximity — To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
Job Zone
Title | Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed |
Education | These occupations usually require a high school diploma. |
Related Experience | Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public. |
Job Training | Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations. |
Job Zone Examples | These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include sheet metal workers, forest fire fighters, customer service representatives, physical therapist aides, salespersons (retail), and tellers. |
SVP Range | (4.0 to < 6.0) |
There is 1 recognized apprenticeable specialty associated with this occupation:
To learn about specific apprenticeship opportunities, please consult the U.S. Department of Labor State Apprenticeship Information website.
For general information about apprenticeships, training, and partnerships with business, visit the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship website.
Percentage of Respondents |
Education Level Required |
36 | High school diploma or equivalent |
32 | Some college, no degree |
21 | Less than high school diploma |
Interest code: ECR
Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business. |
Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow. |
Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others. |
Work Styles
Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical. |
Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations. |
Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
Work Values
Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. |
Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
Related Occupations
35-3021.00 | Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food |
39-3011.00 | Gaming Dealers |
39-3012.00 | Gaming and Sports Book Writers and Runners |
41-1011.00 | First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers |
41-2012.00 | Gaming Change Persons and Booth Cashiers |
41-2031.00 | Retail Salespersons Bright Outlook |
43-3041.00 | Gaming Cage Workers |
43-4081.00 | Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks |
51-3011.00 | Bakers |
51-3021.00 | Butchers and Meat Cutters |
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages (2012) | $9.09 hourly, $18,900 annual |
Employment (2012) | 551,000 employees |
Projected growth (2012-2022) | Average (8% to 14%) |
Projected job openings (2012-2022) | 269,400 |
Top industries (2012) |
State & National
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2012 wage data and 2012-2022 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2012-2022). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
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- Bartenders . Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition.

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SC Web Testers for 2012
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Beverly Brown
Beverly Brown
Beverly Brown has been an educator for over twenty years. She has taught in special and regular education classes in New York and South Carolina. She has her master's degree from Long Island University in educational technology. A five year stroke survivor, she is the facilitator of the Stroke Survivor Support Group at HealthSouth in Columbia and an Ambassador for Power to End Stroke. She and her military husband Christopher are the parents of two children ages 12 and 13. Beverly is very active as the Founder and President of a faith-based non-profit organization.
Leslie Brown
Leslie at a training
Leslie Brown, totally blind since birth, lives in Sanford, North Carolina, and uses JAWS as her primary assistive technology. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina Upstate. She and her niece are pursuing their shared dream of becoming published authors. Her interests involve helping others and improving her skills as a writer. She enjoys writing, learning how to use various forms of assistive technology, and educating the public about how people with disabilities interact with the world.
Read a GoUpstate article about Leslie and her assistive technology.
David W Bundy
David at an Expo exhibit
David Bundy an Assistive Technology Consultant With The SC Commission for the Blind, where he has been employed since 2001. To access web pages, he use JAWS for Windows, Talks, and about any other speech or braille output AT on the market, to one degree or another.
Robbie Clemons
Robbie Clemons
Robbie Clemons lives in Florence and has a degree in Computer Science from Francis Marion University. He enjoys working on software projects and spending time with friends and family. He has an incomplete spinal cord injury with limited use of his arms. He uses sticky keys and a touch pad to help him access a computer.
Steve Cook
David Bundy with Steve Cook
Steve Cook has been an Assistive Technology Consultant with the SC Commission for the Blind for eight years, working with various types of assistive technology. He uses JAWS for Windows to access information on his computer. In 2009 and 2010 he chaired a committee to bring together the Disability Coordinators from around the state from Tech Schools, Colleges and Universities for an Assistive Technology Expo at the SC Commission for the Blind. He is also a Web Tester, and through the SC Assistive Technology Advisory Committee, reviews websites for accessibility with varying types of assistive technology. He is the President of the Computer Science and Technology Division, part of the National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina. He is married and he and his wife both have guide dogs and 2 Dachshunds as pets.
Beth Debus
Beth Debus
Beth has been visually impaired her whole life. As a result, she primarily uses JAWS, along with windows magnifier. She's attending Ohio State University in the MA/PhD Speech Language Pathology program. Her interests include politics, news, good speeches, and, most importantly, spending time with family and friends.
Jim Debus
Jim with his wife Beth
Jim, 28, is a senior at Clemson studying Therapeutic Recreation. He is a member of the service-oriented Chi Delta Fraternity. He is also a member of Clemson Foothills Church and is learning Judo this semester. He has been playing Goalball for 15 years now, and is aspiring to be on the 2012 London Paralympic Team. He and his wife Mary Beth live in Columbus, Ohio where he will be completing his Clemson curricula by fulfilling a 480 hour internship in the spring that is related to adaptive sports.
Brian Denny
Brian Denny with his wife Jessica
Brian Denny has no use of his arms. He was inujured in a work accident. He spent five months post injury at Shepard Center in Atlanta, where he helped the assistive technology department trouble shoot devices they have developed. He enjoys playing with his kids and connecting with people through email and facebook.
Dennis Farro
Dennis with Wendy Mullin and Janet Jendron
Dennis Farro uses JAWS and a Powerbraille 40 braille display. He is a recent graduate of Columbia International University with a Masters in Divinity. He is seeking employment in the field of clinical counseling. He is originally from New York, where all of his family resides. Among his many and varied interests are traveling, public speaking, reading and working out.
Kristi Flynn
Kristi Flynn
Kristi Flynn is a small business owner who lives in Georgia and also works with Augusta Virtual Assistants (AVA). She uses Windows DPI screen resolution to access electronic information. She has an associates degree in human services and a certificate in e-marketing from Aiken Technical College. Her interests include blogging, concerts, television and traveling.
Kristi is very grateful for her experience with the program:
"I have taken the skills I learned as a web tester and used them to start my own Internet marketing business! I now can tell clients I have been trained and have experience in making websites accessible and friendly to those with special needs."
Kristi Flynn's site: KFLY Internet Marketing
Sam Hahn
Sam Hahn and Janet Jendron
Sam Hahn is a web designer for the SC Department of Natural Resources and a member of the SC Assistive Technology Advisory Committee, as well as its Web Accessibility Committee. A former member of SCATP, Sam has been active in planning web conferences and events for a number of years.
Dow Hammond
Dow Hammond at work
"Dow Hammond graduated from USC and now works with the USC Office of Student Disability Services. With his love of technology and his own experience of living with a disability, he enjoys helping out in the OSDS Assistive Technology lab and being in charge of their website. Away from work, Dow's always up for road trips, playing and watching sports, family events, and relaxation!"
Denise James
Denise and Wil James
with their dogs Max and Titan.
Denise James is from Augusta, GA. After 20 years with Richmond County Department of Family and Children Services in Augusta Georgia, she retired to pursue a career in writing as well as leadership and public speaking through Toastmasters. She uses ZoomText 9.1 and 10 beta, MAGic 12, NVDA, and Windows 8 Magnifier. She and Wil have been married for almost ten years and have two furry four-legged service dog children, Max and Titan.
William James
Wil and Denise with their dogs
Max and Titan
William (Wil) James was a technical support consultant for an adaptive software company. He uses JAWS and Window Eyes. He and Denise are married and live in Augusta, GA with their service dogs, Max and Titan.
Clay Jeffcoat
Jon Brundage with Clay Jeffcoat
Clay serves as the Access Technology Specialist in the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind's Outreach Vision Program. He provides consultation and direct instruction to students and teachers in public schools and agencies statewide. He also consults with the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind Braille Production Center located at Leath Correctional Facility in Greenwood, where he provides training and technical assistance with the sophisticated equipment used to produce Braille. He has taught Access Technology for Teachers of the Visually Impaired for the University of South Carolina Upstate. Clay is a graduate of USC with a BS in Computer Science and an MBA. He is a member of the Computer Science and Technology Committee of the National Federation of the Blind of SC, and also serves as vice chair of the Talking Book Services Advisory Council for the South Carolina State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
In his spare time, Mr. Jeffcoat enjoys antique radio restoration and spending time with his family.
David Jones
David Jones, Dragon user
David Jones lives in Hilton Head and is self-employed. Due to paralysis, he uses Dragon Dictate, a voice activated program. He has five siblings and an eleven year old son. He enjoys sports, meditation and meeting people, and appreciates his very supportive mother and surrounding community.
John Knope
John Knope at the AT Expo
John Knope works for Goodwill in Greenville training clients of the SC Commission for the Blind to use JAWS and ZoomText. He is blind and has a hearing impairment. He and his wife Crystal live in Greenville. He enjoys conversation, playing the guitar, and working with computers.
David Lindsey
David Lindsey at home
David lives in upstate South Carolina and has quadraplegia. He enjoys reading and surfing the web for news. He uses different combinations of a mouthstick, trackball, the Sticky Keys feature of Windows 7, a sip/puff button and a hands-free mouse to access the web.
Will McCain
Will McCain
Will McCain is currently a Program Assistant at the SC Assistive Technology Program keeping the website up-to-date. Originally from Denmark, SC, he lived in Charleston for a short time before moving to Columbia. He is also a former Peace Corps Volunteer, with a stint in Senegal. He is constantly expanding his skills as a Web Developer, hoping one day to have his own company.
Stefanie Magura
Stefanie Magura
Stefanie Magura has been totally blind since birth. She currently lives in Asheville, but was raised in Rock Hill, SC, and recently graduated from Winthrop University with a degree in business.
She's used JAWS since high school, but is now learning to use NVDA. In her free time, she enjoys going to concerts, walking, reading, and snow skiing.
Wendy Mullin
Wendy with Janet Jendron
Web Developer, USC
Columbia SC
Cindy Popenhagen
Ciny Popenhagen
Cindy uses Zoomtext magnifier/screen reader. She has been legally blind since birth. She works for the Client Assistance Program in the Governor's Office as an Administrative Assistant/Advocate. She has her Associates in Science/Office Systems Technology from Midlands Technical College. She recently earned her Bachelor's in Business Administration/Computer Software Application at Limestone College. She is married and a proud mother of a six year old son who keeps her quite busy.
Kelly Prescott
Kelly Prescott
Kelly Prescott is a Unix systems/network administrator who uses JAWS screen reading software and a Braille display on his Windows 7 computer. In his spare time he pursues his amateur radio hobby, plays goal ball, sings karaoke, reads, cooks and hangs out with friends.
Josh Rose
Clay Jeffcoat with Josh
Josh Rose is the owner of Owner of Elephant Room Media, LLC. After getting a BA in Media Arts from the University of South Carolina, he started his business that designs web pages and makes commercials, event videos, and promotional videos for businesses and non-profits (including United Way of the Midlands, Palmetto Health Foundation, City Year, The SC Spinal Cord Injury Association, and the South Carolina Interagency Office for Disability and Health).
Amanda Rush
Amanda Rush
Amanda Rush lives in Greenville, North Carolina. She previously worked for Freedom Scientific as a support technician and is currently between jobs and in the process of going to college to obtain various Cisco and Microsoft certifications. Amanda is blind and uses JAWS to access the Internet. In her spare time, she likes to read and cook. She also loves technology, so much so that almost all the available surfaces in her apartment are covered with it!
Jessica Smith
Jessica Smith, JAWS user
Jessica Smith is originally from Dillon, SC. After graduating from undergraduate school in Florence, she move to Virginia, where she works as an accountant for the Department of the Army. She has been blind since the age of 16 and has been using JAWS and Open Book for over 10 years. She loves shopping and reading, and frequently visits friends and family in the Carolinas.
J. Laura Skelton
Laura Skelton.
J. Laura Skelton of Sumter, South Carolina, is the daughter of a mother/daughter rental property business team. Her Assistive Technology consist of JAWS a screen reader and Zoomtext a screen magnifier. Laura enjoys expanding her horizons in computers, herb gardening, and preserving family history. She is an active member of The National Federation of the Blind Sumter Chapter.
Grace Strother
Grace Strother.
Grace Strother is a knowledge specialist at Blackbaud, a software company that serves the nonprofit sector, where she administers the online knowledgebase and helps manage social media engagement with customers. She's passionate about fine tea, retired racing greyhounds, books, and travel. Grace is legally blind and uses the ZoomText screen reader/magnifier.
Brian Woznicki
Brian Woznicki.
Brian J. Woznicki has had cerebral palsy since birth. His first passion is scouting. As an Eagle Scout, he's served on the staff of two jamborees in Ireland and in various adult leadership roles. Brian graduated from Eastern University, St. David's, Pennsylvania, has a certificate in computer programming and a Master's of Science in Organizational Management from the University of Pennsylvania. He also has a spinal cord injury as a result of spasticity in his neck. For over ten years, he's worked for different corporations and he's currently an adapted technology research specialist at Inglis where he maintains an adapted technology database and is experienced in several adapted input methods, including Tobii EyeGaze.
Allison Yeager
Allison Yeager with her dog Forge.
Allison Yeager is originally from Columbia, SC. She now lives in Charleston and work for at Blackbaud, a computer software company that makes software products for non-profits. She works with the Knowledgebase and other online resources. Allison says, "I enjoy doing things with my wonderful Siberian Husky. He's recently completed an agility class." Allison also enjoys learning new things and traveling.
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Quick Drive Review: 2009 BMW Z4 sDrive35i
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Ever since BMW unveiled the new 2009 Z4 at the Detroit Auto Show last January, the automaker has been scrupulous about not referring to it as a sports car. Instead the Z4 is the latest generation BMW Roadster. BMW's roadster heritage dates back to the 1930s but this is the third generation of the modern drop top two seaters that began with the Z3 in the early 90s. Like the last transition that saw the Z3 become the Z4, this one has grown and become more sophisticated than its predecessor.
That means it is both more feature rich and heavier than before. The most significant change is the adoption of a retractable hard top for the first replacing the soft top of previous models. The Z4 is the second BMW following the 3-series to go down this path and as with most other examples the two-seater is far more visually appealing. The new Z4 is also more aesthetically pleasing in other ways was well. To learn more about the Z4 including whether it lives up to its tag-line "an expression of joy" continue reading after the jump.
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AACR Mourns Loss of Zora Brown: Prominent Cancer Research Advocate, Champion of Breast Cancer Awareness Among African-Americans
March 4, 2013
PHILADELPHIA — The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is deeply saddened by the loss of Zora Brown, a trustee for the AACR Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer, a breast and ovarian cancer survivor and a pioneering advocate for cancer research and breast cancer awareness among minorities. Ms. Brown, who passed away Sunday, March 3 at 63 years of age, was also the founder and chairperson of Cancer Awareness Program Services (CAPS) and the Breast Cancer Resource Committee (BCRC), an organization dedicated to lowering the breast cancer mortality rate among African-Americans.
"There is a hole in our hearts as we mourn the loss of Zora Brown, who despite her many years of dealing with two cancers and multiple relapses, maintained an amazing and courageous spirit that inspired everyone around her," said Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), chief executive officer of the American Association for Cancer Research. "Her life's work as a cancer advocate has been extremely important in increasing public awareness about cancer, especially among women. Our lives have been enriched by knowing her. In her memory and honor, we will do our utmost to work even harder to expedite the prevention and cure of this disease that takes so many."
At the end of her life, Ms. Brown was living with stage III ovarian cancer, but she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1981, at just 32, and then again in 1997. Her experience with cancer led her to devote her life as an advocate for women, and for African-American women in particular, with breast and ovarian cancers.
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"The AACR and cancer research community lost an amazing and gracious woman with the passing of Zora Brown. I cannot stress enough the importance of her work as an advocate for cancer research. She, along with other advocates, are the unsung heroes in the fight against cancer," said AACR President Frank McCormick, Ph.D., director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Zora's strength in battling her cancers and her passion for advocating for women with cancer were an inspiration to us all. She will be dearly missed but certainly never forgotten."
Brown also served with distinction as a member of the board of trustees for the AACR Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer since 2008 where her voice and resolve as a cancer survivor and advocate were richly appreciated.
"We have just lost a great leader in the fight against cancer. In spite of her own challenges with cancer, she untiringly extended her hands to help others and was a fervent promoter of the prevention and cure of breast cancer," said Yuet Wai Kan, M.D., D.Sc., AACR Foundation Board Chairman and professor of hematology, University of California, San Francisco. "She was also a strong advocate for cancer research through congressional testimony. Her eloquence and clarity of purpose will be missed by all trustees of the AACR Foundation."
After her first breast cancer diagnosis led to a mastectomy, Ms. Brown learned that cancer mortality rates for African-American women were continuing to increase while rates were decreasing for Caucasian women. Alarmed by these statistics, she formed the BCRC in 1989, an advocacy organization that vowed to lower the mortality rate among African-Americans by the end of this century.
Ms. Brown graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Following this she obtained a job as secretary at the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association and then took a position with the Ford Motor Company, where she served for six years in the lobbying office.
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In the late 1980s, she partnered with the Revlon Company Foundation; Lilly Tartikoff, wife of the then-NBC president; Phylicia Rashad; and Jane Pauley to produce "Once a Year…For a Lifetime," a documentary movie explaining the benefits of regular mammography that made its television debut on Nov. 16, 1990.
In 1991, President Bush appointed her to the National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB), which is an 18-member advisory body of outside experts whose primary task is to advise the secretary of Health and Human Services, the director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and ultimately the president of the United States on a range of issues affecting the nation's cancer program and, specifically, NCI operations. She served on the board until 1998. Due in part to Ms. Brown's influence, Congress appropriated $500,000 for breast and cervical screening for low-income, uninsured, inner-city women.
As part of the BCRC, Ms. Brown organized the CAPS in 1992, to institute comprehensive educational and prevention programs focusing on cancers affecting women. In 1993, she established "Rise-Sister-Rise," an all-African-American, free gathering on Saturday mornings in local venues that taught women the rules of healthy living and cancer prevention.
Ms. Brown has been recognized widely for her work in breast cancer awareness among minorities. In 1990, she was honored by Senator Fred Hollings of South Carolina, who invited her to become a board member of the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.
She has also appeared in a Washington Post feature called "Portraits of the City," which lauded her for her work.
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There could not have been a better metaphor. The Pininfarina-designed retractable hardtop version of the Focus Focus on display here on the first morning of the Geneva auto show was unveiled in its full glory before the world's media. However, the salivating auto journalists could not get their hands on the car, which was raised above the show floor on a protected platform. A similar frustration will likely be felt by customers in the United States when they find out that this stylish addition to the Focus lineup will be not be making its way across the Atlantic. The … Read more


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The noted economist, director of Columbia's Earth Institute and co-founder of Millennium Promise explains how we can end poverty globally.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs
Tavis: Our gratitude and thanks once again to the good people at the Media Mobilizing Project for their terrific work on these poverty tour highlights. Their mission of training and empowering people who are poor and working class is one of the primary reasons we chose to partner with them on this project in the first place, and as you can see every night this week the quality of their work speaks for itself.
For more tonight, I am honored, honored, to be joined by Jeffrey Sachs. He is a noted economist, best-selling author and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia, whose latest book is called, "The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity." Jeffrey Sachs, always good to have you, sir, on this program.
Jeffrey Sachs: Thank you so much. I'm the one that's honored. What you're doing is unique in this country and so essential right now, and it's just incredible. It's great, this series.
Tavis: Well, thank you.
Sachs: These are people that are not being heard. This is what's wrong with our political system, and you're helping people to raise their voice and be heard in this country.
Tavis: I appreciate that. I want to get to "The Price of Civilization" in a moment, but I want to start, Professor Sachs, with what I think is the seminal text on poverty, on ending poverty, that is – your book, "The End of Poverty."
Sachs: Thank you.
Tavis: 2005. Read it two or three times. I want to start by asking what you make of where we are now vis-à-vis poverty in America, given the plan that you laid out for ending poverty back in 2005.
Sachs: Well, I said in 2005 that in our generation we could end poverty worldwide. We can end it certainly in America, the richest large country in history, with all the technology, all the means. If we weren't so selfish in our politics, this wouldn't even be a challenge, actually.
But we can also end poverty worldwide in the very poorest places, in the villages of Africa or in the hills of Central America, and we see powerful progress in some places, but not in the United States right now. In the U.S., it's backsliding. In the U.S., we are not going forward, whereas in other parts of the world there's a lot of progress in reducing poverty.
Tavis: You've said two things now I want to go back and get right quick and have you unpack for me. Number one, when you say if we weren't so selfish in our politics, what do you mean by that?
Sachs: I mean that our politics really for the last 30 years has been to give everything to the top and to keep taking away from the middle class and the poor, and we're still on that route right now. We're just gutting the government services that people need to make sure their kids can get a decent education, can be healthy, can avoid asthma, can avoid other debilities of nutrition or an unsafe environment.
We're still taking away from the poor, and the rich have never been richer. The 400 richest people in this country, the billionaires on the new Forbes list, have more than $1 trillion of wealth. They're averaging more than $3.5 billion each of them in their net worth, and then we're told by Washington politicians, oh, there's nothing we can do, we have a budget crisis.
Well, sure. If you let the richest of the richest of the rich just walk Scot-free, bear no responsibility in our society, then there won't be for the poorest of the poor.
Tavis: Over the last 50 years, though, to your point now of being selfish in our politics, we've had both Democrat presidents, Republican presidents, Democrat-controlled Congress, Republican-controlled Congress. So how is it that whether Democrat or Republican control Congress or control the White House, that we have still been, to your term, so selfish in our politics?
Sachs: The last time we made big progress against poverty was in the 1960s, and the war on poverty, despite everything that was said and said by the right wing until today, made huge and sustained progress in reducing poverty. Big breakthroughs.
But then came Reagan and the backlash, and what's amazing is that our politics since 1981, when Ronald Reagan came into office, and he came into office on a platform that said government is not the solution, it's the problem, and I say if that's what your view is, don't be president, because we need a president that believes in government, not believes in dismantling government.
But he started to dismantle. He gave tax cuts to the rich, started to cut the base out of our education spending, social safety net, stopped investing in infrastructure – the things that make America productive.
But then what's amazing is this continued, unfortunately, through the Clinton administration, this continued through definitely the Bush era with more tax cuts, and tragically, it's continued through the first years of the Obama administration.
What you see are two political parties that are both so eager to get big campaign contributions from rich people that they don't even hear the poor people anymore in this country.
Tavis: There are a lot of poor people, though, who voted for then-Senator Obama who thought that this would be the end of the Reagan revolution; that Reagan era would finally, finally come to an end and that things would be different. So the message of hope and change resonated, obviously, with so many Americans, that Mr. Obama doesn't just win, he wins in a landslide.
Yet I hear you suggest now that this has continued three years into his presidency. What do you mean by that?
Sachs: Well, I supported the president, I support the president, I'm going to vote for the president for reelection, but it hasn't been change, it's been continuity. The sad part is that even when Senator Obama was campaigning to become President Obama in the summer of 2008, his campaign advisers wrote a column in "The Wall Street Journal" that said, "We will keep the tax collection as a shared national income no higher than during the Reagan administration."
I was shocked. I sent a note to them, "What are you doing?" They told me a few months later that I was the only person that wrote to them that way. I know as an economist if we don't tax the rich so that we can rebuild schools, so that we can rebuild neighborhoods, so that we can focus on real infrastructure projects, not shovel-ready, which don't exist, but real infrastructure over a decade, we're not going to be able to rebuild, we're not going to have the skills, we're not going to create good jobs.
So I was asking, "What are you saying, to keep the tax rates?" but this is how politics plays in America – both parties cater to the rich. That's why, honestly, when push came to shove in December 2010 and the Bush era tax cuts were about to expire, 60 percent of Americans were saying in the opinion surveys, let them expire at the top.
But that's not what happened. All of a sudden there's a deal between the White House and the Congress to extend them for two more years. That wasn't because the president's back was to the wall; sadly not, because 60 percent of Americans wanted the top tax rates to go up. They know what the story is.
But that's not what the political advisers were saying. "No, no, you can't do that, you're running for reelection. You're going to need the campaign contributions."
This is really the story of America, how the market system, especially in the global era, took away a lot of jobs in America that used to provide a middle class income, especially in the manufacturing sector.
But instead of the government helping to create new skills, new industries and so on, the government teamed up with the most powerful and richest interests in this country because that's how campaigns are made, and since those 30 years have continued to side with the top 1 percent and to ignore totally the bottom, the poorest people, and once in a while say something about the middle, but really only pay attention to the top.
Tavis: Which takes me directly into the new text, "The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity." Let me try to get into it this way, so you can tell me more about the new book.
To your point now, though, when Occupy Wall Street, now in 800 cities and growing, starts to raise its voice, when Jeffrey Sachs writes a book called "The Price of Civilization," when Tavis Smiley or Cornel West go on a poverty tour or anybody else in this country – there are many people beyond us who have been talking for years about eradicating poverty -
Sachs: Absolutely.
Tavis: When you do that in this moment, we get accused of playing a game of class war. What do you say about that?
Sachs: The war has been on the poor. The rich have been waging a war on the poor for 30 years, and now people are finding their voices and saying, "Stop it." What's amazing is that in 2008, when Wall Street created a worldwide disaster, these CEOs, these titans of finance that nearly wrecked the world, said, "What? Me? No, we want government bailouts, give us a trillion." Then with that money they paid themselves more billions of bonuses the next year.
I called the White House and I said, "What are you doing? You're letting them take taxpayer money for their mega-bonuses," and Larry Summers, the economic adviser from Wall Street, said, "Well, Jeff, where would you draw the line?"
I said, "Larry, what are you talking about? It's taxpayer money going out in big bonuses." But Wall Street and politics are so tightly infused they couldn't even draw the line at that moment, and that's why we've reached a point where Wall Street abused the public, it abused the trust, it violated the laws, because every one of our big firms, whether it's Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch or JP Morgan, they're paying fines right now for what they did against the securities laws, and yet they've remained in charge.
They remain invited to the White House for the state dinners, and that's why people are out in the streets across this country right now. The key slogan, the key motto, "We are the 99 percent," is rigorously accurate, because the top 1 percent has walked away with the prize.
People who are staggering, people who we have seen, you have seen on the tour and whose voice you're bringing to America, they're suddenly realizing, "Wait a minute – this isn't a market economy just good luck and bad luck. These guys broke the rules, they broke the law. They took the money, they sided with politics and they're still there. What kind of market system is that?" That's a rigged system, and that's what people are starting to wake up to.
Tavis: I've got 90 seconds. I could do this for hours with you, but in 90 seconds, I want to give you all of that time to give me the last word. What, then, is the price of civilization?
Sachs: The price of civilization is the investments we need to make in education, in healthcare, in our neighborhoods, in the physical environment for safety and for good health. We need to pay for that, and especially those who have taken all of this money at the top need to start paying.
That's the virtue that we need. They cannot be lawless. They can't absent themselves from our society. They need to participate. I have in this book a specific set of recommendations; how we can collect several percent of our national income from the top of the top and use that money to help people regain the skills or finish college, have the wherewithal to be productive members of society.
Not receiving handouts, but having the productivity to get out of poverty and to have decent jobs in the future. We need to invest in those people to help them, and the money has to come from the top.
Tavis: As I said earlier, Jeffrey Sachs, back in 2005, wrote, to my mind, the seminal text on ending poverty in America, go get that. It's called, "End of Poverty." The new one from Professor Sachs is called "The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity." Jeffrey Sachs, an honor, sir, to have you on this program.
Sachs: Thank you so much. Good to be with you.
Tavis: Delighted to have you here. Tomorrow night we'll wrap up our poverty week with a look at new grassroots movements working to combat poverty and a conversation with Sojourner CEO, Jim Wallis.
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Mr. Sach's comments were the most significant so far on the OWS. The occupiers of Wall Street are on the front lines of Wall Street's War on the poor and the middle class. Wall Street's behavior was the most efficient & effective weapon of mass destruction on our country's economy. Please continue to have Professor Sachs return to the show as you continue on the poverty issue that is spreading through the middle class in this country. Please include Elizabeth Warren and have them debate the politician who are running for office. It would be very useful for the electorate to address questions to these candidates that really matter. Warren and Sachs could refute the fairy tales they are promising and will never deliver to the public. The millions of dollars that are needed by legislators to be in office and buy their committee seats are a major obstacle to having any change happen through Congress or the Senate. Thank you Mr. Smiley for your honest work and extraordinary interviewing with public figures who need to be heard and introduced to the public that does not want to watch corporate right wing media.
does does mr zachs have any intention of running for office or becoming a presidential advisor…….I hope
I said when Reagen came into office and Nafta that this country was going down but people wanted to buy everything cheap from Wal Mart. Gullible and still be lied with Republicans but Obama lost my support with free trade bill just signed and probably will allow the pipeline from Canada. All they care about is being in power not our democracy.
Thank you for this series and thank you Dr Sach's for having the moral courage to stand up to the Obama administration for turning their backs on the poor, the work and middle classes and for naming names. I wish President Obama and the members of Congress had that kind of moral courage to stand up to the greed of the rich, the corporate welfare system and the military industrial complex!
Hi, Tavis! Your interview with Prof. Sachs was lights out! Thanks to both of you!!! One thing Prof. Sachs confirmed for me was that AMERICAN capitalists in Wall Street, through their manipulations, in 2008, almost did to the world economy what they (other AMERICAN capitalists) did to cause The Great Depression in the 1920s (The great & wise Will Rogers is my trusted source for this accusation.). Now since the Great Depression, which AMERICAN capitalists caused, was the cause of the even greater depressions in Germany & Japan at the time, and since these horrendous depressions were the proximate cause of Hitler & the Nazis being able to take over in Germany, & the Japanese military in Japan, we can logically conclude that AMERICAN capitalists caused World War II & the Holocaust, because without Hitler & the Nazis there would have been no World War II or Holocaust, & likewise, without the Japanese military in charge there would have been no Pearl Harbor, nor World War II in the Pacific.
Now since WE won World War II, the culpability of AMERICAN capitalists in causing this great disaster has gone unmentioned. I fear that since they are accruing more & more power, & as Prof. Sachs points out, are kowtowed to by both Democrats & Republicans, well, who will stop them? They were too big to fail & now they are even bigger. They have the Supreme Court solidly in their pockets, all the GOP, & almost all the Dems.
If we could establish that THEY (their equals, of course!) were responsible for the deaths of over 30,000,000 people back then, maybe they wouldn't be quite so arrogant, no?
Can AMERICAN capitalists actually be humble? I very much doubt it!Prof. Sachs has become a sort of hero of mine lately. It so refreshing to see someone as intellegent and articulate as Dr. Sachs simply tell it like it is. In this excellent, yet brief, interview he lays out the exact reason for the OWS movement. Also, my favorite quote from him came at the beginning: 'If you don't believe in government, please don't run for President.' You almost laugh saying it because its an absurd notion, yet the GOP candidates suffer from this precise problem. They want to take the government we so deperately need to tackle poverty, education, infrastructure, energy etc., and abandon it.
As always, thanks to Tavis Smiley for another great, informative interview!
While I appreciate Prof Sachs rebuke of the Obama administration, especially, Larry Summers, I am extremely frustrated by his explanation of the financial crisis being caused by Wall Street. Without question, large financial institutions were complicit in the financial melt down, however, the underlying problem was the over-leveraging of the of the american consumer and the ensuing housing bubble. This financial state was precipitated by federal policy enacted under Clinton and perpetuated by Bush. If the ridiculously easy and unchecked access to capitol did not occur, many of the transactions created on Wall Street would have been impossible. As for "Government is the problem", a more correct statement from conservatives such as my self is "Too large of centralized government dominated by two political parties is the problem. The influence of lobbyists representing special interests on the allocation of tax payer dollars too great, leaving most of us out in the cold.


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In celebration of the spirited 19th-century adventurers who settled Florida, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Chinsegut Conservation Center in Brooksville will host its 16th annual Pioneer Day Celebration on Saturday, Nov. 5. Festivities will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The family-oriented celebration is a festive exploration of Florida's cultural and historical past. Participants will see and learn about the conservation legacy of our ancestors and how to continue that heritage by naturally recycling, catching water in a wooden rain barrel and making the best use of native materials. And, better yet, it's all fun and games.
Visitors will experience the age-old sights, sounds and smells of early peninsular Florida existence while listening to live music of the period; seeing archery demonstrations; participating in using a two-man saw; and enjoying demonstrations of cow milking, quilting, spinning, rope making, tanning and other pioneer survival skills. Learn about making candles and soap and weaving baskets, and listen to an expert turkey caller work a homemade box call. The festival also features freshly squeezed lemonade, roasted corn and other period foods.
The Chinsegut Conservation Center is on land once homesteaded by the Bishops, an honest-to-goodness pioneer family, the remnants of whose 19th-century dwelling still exist on the property. Authentic re-creations of a Seminole Indian camp and the Bishop family living history demonstration will bring to life the spirit that was Florida in the 1800s.
Activities will occur throughout the day. Lunch and merchandise will be available for purchase from exhibitors. In-service credit is available for teachers with county approval.
Free parking for the event will be available, with shuttles running from the parking area at the Withlacoochee Training Center, approximately one mile north of the intersection of U.S. 41 and County Road 476. On-site parking at the Conservation Center is available for people with disabilities.
A suggested donation of $1 per person helps support Chinsegut programs, including Pioneer Day. There is also a $5 raffle to win one of the following prizes: a rain barrel, a bat house or a $100 gift certificate from A Hitch 'N Time for a horse-drawn wagon ride.
For more information about Pioneer Day, visit MyFWC.com/Chinsegut or contact the Chinsegut Conservation Center at 352-754-6722.
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In statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations.[1] An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set.[2]
Outliers can occur by chance in any distribution, but they are often indicative either of measurement error or that the population has a heavy-tailed distribution. In the former case one wishes to discard them or use statistics that are robust to outliers, while in the latter case they indicate that the distribution has high kurtosis and that one should be very cautious in using tools or intuitions that assume a normal distribution. A frequent cause of outliers is a mixture of two distributions, which may be two distinct sub-populations, or may indicate 'correct trial' versus 'measurement error'; this is modeled by a mixture model.
In most larger samplings of data, some data points will be further away from the sample mean than what is deemed reasonable. This can be due to incidental systematic error or flaws in the theory that generated an assumed family of probability distributions, or it may be that some observations are far from the center of the data. Outlier points can therefore indicate faulty data, erroneous procedures, or areas where a certain theory might not be valid. However, in large samples, a small number of outliers is to be expected (and not due to any anomalous condition).
Outliers, being the most extreme observations, may include the sample maximum or sample minimum, or both, depending on whether they are extremely high or low. However, the sample maximum and minimum are not always outliers because they may not be unusually far from other observations.
Naive interpretation of statistics derived from data sets that include outliers may be misleading. For example, if one is calculating the average temperature of 10 objects in a room, and nine of them are between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius, but an oven is at 175 °C, the median of the data will be between 20 and 25 °C but the mean temperature will be between 35.5 and 40 °C. In this case, the median better reflects the temperature of a randomly sampled object than the mean; naively interpreting the mean as "a typical sample", equivalent to the median, is incorrect. As illustrated in this case, outliers may be indicative of data points that belong to a different population than the rest of the sample set.
Estimators capable of coping with outliers are said to be robust: the median is a robust statistic, while the mean is not.[3]
Occurrence and causes[edit]
In the case of normally distributed data, the three sigma rule means that roughly 1 in 22 observations will differ by twice the standard deviation or more from the mean, and 1 in 370 will deviate by three times the standard deviation[4] for details. In a sample of 1000 observations, the presence of up to five observations deviating from the mean by more than three times the standard deviation is within the range of what can be expected, being less than twice the expected number and hence within 1 standard deviation of the expected number – see Poisson distribution, and not indicative of an anomaly. If the sample size is only 100, however, just three such outliers are already reason for concern, being more than 11 times the expected number.
In general, if the nature of the population distribution is known a priori, it is possible to test if the number of outliers deviate significantly from what can be expected: for a given cutoff (so samples fall beyond the cutoff with probability p) of a given distribution, the number of outliers will follow a binomial distribution with parameter p, which can generally be well-approximated by the Poisson distribution with λ = pn. Thus if one takes a normal distribution with cutoff 3 standard deviations from the mean, p is approximately .3%, and thus for 1,000 trials one can approximate the number of samples whose deviation exceeds 3 sigmas by a Poisson distribution with λ = 3.
Outliers can have many anomalous causes. A physical apparatus for taking measurements may have suffered a transient malfunction. There may have been an error in data transmission or transcription. Outliers arise due to changes in system behaviour, fraudulent behaviour, human error, instrument error or simply through natural deviations in populations. A sample may have been contaminated with elements from outside the population being examined. Alternatively, an outlier could be the result of a flaw in the assumed theory, calling for further investigation by the researcher. Additionally, the pathological appearance of outliers of a certain form appears in a variety of datasets, indicating that the causative mechanism for the data might differ at the extreme end (King effect).
Identifying outliers[edit]
There is no rigid mathematical definition of what constitutes an outlier; determining whether or not an observation is an outlier is ultimately a subjective exercise. There are various methods of outlier detection[5][6].
Model-based methods which are commonly used for identification assume that the data are from a normal distribution, and identify observations which are deemed "unlikely" based on mean and standard deviation:
It is proposed to determine in a series of observations the limit of error, beyond which all observations involving so great an error may be rejected, provided there are as many as such observations. The principle upon which it is proposed to solve this problem is, that the proposed observations should be rejected when the probability of the system of errors obtained by retaining them is less than that of the system of errors obtained by their rejection multiplied by the probability of making so many, and no more, abnormal observations. (Quoted in the editorial note on page 516 to Peirce (1982 edition) from A Manual of Astronomy 2:558 by Chauvenet.)
- Dixon's Q test
- ASTM E178 Standard Practice for Dealing With Outlying Observations
Mahalanobis distance and leverage are often used to detect outliers, especially in the development of linear regression models.
Other methods flag observations based on measures such as the interquartile range. For example, if and are the lower and upper quartiles respectively, then one could define an outlier to be any observation outside the range:
for some nonnegative constant .
Other approaches are distance-based[11][12] and density-based,[13] and all of them frequently use the distance to the k-nearest neighbors to label observations as outliers or non-outliers.
- Modified Thompson Tau test[14]
The modified Thompson Tau test is a method used to determine if outlier exists in a data set. The strength of this method lies in the fact that it takes into account a data set's standard deviation, average and provides a statistically determined rejection zone; thus providing an objective method to determine if a data point is an outlier.
How it works: First, a data set's average is determined. Next the absolute deviation between each data point and the average are determined. Thirdly, a rejection region is determined using the formula: ; where is the critical value from the Student t distribution, n is the sample size, and s is the sample standard deviation. To determine if a value is an outlier: If δ > Rejection Region, the data point is an outlier. If δ ≤ Rejection Region, the data point is not an outlier.
The modified Thompson Tau test is used to find one outlier at a time (largest value of δ is removed if it is an outlier). Meaning, if a data point is found to be an outlier, it is removed from the data set and the test is applied again with a new average and rejection region. This process is continued until no outliers remain in a data set.
Working with outliers[edit]
The choice of how to deal with an outlier should depend on the cause.
Even when a normal distribution model is appropriate to the data being analyzed, outliers are expected for large sample sizes and should not automatically be discarded if that is the case. The application should use a classification algorithm that is robust to outliers to model data with naturally occurring outlier points.
Deletion of outlier data is a controversial practice frowned on by many scientists and science instructors; while mathematical criteria provide an objective and quantitative method for data rejection, they do not make the practice more scientifically or methodologically sound, especially in small sets or where a normal distribution cannot be assumed. Rejection of outliers is more acceptable in areas of practice where the underlying model of the process being measured and the usual distribution of measurement error are confidently known. An outlier resulting from an instrument reading error may be excluded but it is desirable that the reading is at least verified.
In regression problems, an alternative approach may be to only exclude points which exhibit a large degree of influence on the parameters, using a measure such as Cook's distance.[15]
If a data point (or points) is excluded from the data analysis, this should be clearly stated on any subsequent report.
Non-normal distributions[edit]
The possibility should be considered that the underlying distribution of the data is not approximately normal, having "fat tails". For instance, when sampling from a Cauchy distribution,[16] the sample variance increases with the sample size, the sample mean fails to converge as the sample size increases, and outliers are expected at far larger rates than for a normal distribution.
Set-membership uncertainties[edit]
A set membership approach considers that the uncertainty corresponding to the ith measurement of an unknown random vector x is represented by a set Xi (instead of a probability density function). If no outliers occur, x should belong to the intersection of all Xi's. When outliers occur, this intersection could be empty, and we should relax a small number of the sets Xi (as small as possible) in order to avoid any inconsistency. [17] This can be done using the notion of q-relaxed intersection. As illustrated by the figure, the q-relaxed intersection corresponds to the set of all x which belong to all sets except q of them. Sets Xi that do not intersect the q-relaxed intersection could be suspected to be outliers.
Alternative models[edit]
In cases where the cause of the outliers is known, it may be possible to incorporate this effect into the model structure, for example by using a hierarchical Bayes model or a mixture model.[18][19]
See also[edit]
- Anomaly detection
- Anomaly time series
- Robust statistics
- Robust regression
- Box plot
- King effect
- Studentized residual
- Winsorising
- Data transformation (statistics)
- Local Outlier Factor
- ^ Grubbs, F. E. (February 1969), "Procedures for detecting outlying observations in samples", Technometrics 11 (1): 1–21, "An outlying observation, or "outlier," is one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs."
- ^ Grubbs 1969, p. 1 stating "An outlying observation may be merely an extreme manifestation of the random variability inherent in the data. ... On the other hand, an outlying observation may be the result of gross deviation from prescribed experimental procedure or an error in calculating or recording the numerical value."
- ^ Ripley, Brian D. 2004. Robust statistics
- ^ Ruan, D., Chen, G., Kerre, E.E. and Wets G.(Eds.): Intelligent Data Mining: Techniques and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence Vol. 5 Springer 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-26256-5 (page 318)
- ^ Rousseeuw, P. and Leroy, A.: 1996, Robust Regression and Outlier Detection. John Wiley & Sons., 3rd edition.
- ^ Victoria J. Hodge and Jim Austin, A Survey of Outlier Detection Methodologies, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.109.1943&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- ^ Benjamin Peirce, "Criterion for the Rejection of Doubtful Observations", Astronomical Journal II 45 (1852) and Errata to the original paper.
- ^ Peirce, Benjamin (May 1877–1878). "On Peirce's criterion". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 13: 348–351. doi:10.2307/25138498. JSTOR 25138498.
- ^ Peirce, Charles Sanders (1870 [published 1873]). "Appendix No. 21. On the Theory of Errors of Observation". Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1870: 200–224. . NOAA PDF Eprint (goes to Report p. 200, PDF's p. 215).
- ^ Peirce, Charles Sanders (1982 [1986 copyright]). "On the Theory of Errors of Observation [Appendix 21, according to the editorial note on page 515]". In Kloesel, Christian J. W., et alia. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition. Volume 3, 1872-1878. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 140–160. ISBN 0-253-37201-1.
- ^ Knorr, E. M. and Ng, R. T.: 1998, Algorithms for Mining Distance-Based Outliers in Large Datasets. In: Proceedings of the VLDB Conference. New York, USA, pp. 392–403
- ^ Ramaswamy, S., Rastogi, R., and Shim, K.: 2000, 'Efficient Algorithms for Mining Outliers from Large Data Sets'. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data. Dallas, TX, pp.427–438.
- ^ Markus Breunig and Hans-Peter Kriegel and Raymond T. Ng and Jörg Sander: 2000, LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference. pp. 93-104
- ^ John M. Cimbala (September 12, 2011). "Outliers".
- ^ Cook, R. Dennis (Feb 1977). "Detection of Influential Observations in Linear Regression". Technometrics (American Statistical Association) 19 (1): 15–18.
- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. Cauchy Distribution. From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource
- ^ Jaulin, L. (2010). "Probabilistic set-membership approach for robust regression". Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice.
- ^ Roberts, S. and Tarassenko, L.: 1995, A probabilistic resource allocating network for novelty detection. Neural Computation 6, 270–284.
- ^ Bishop, C. M. (August 1994). "Novelty detection and Neural Network validation". Proceedings of the IEE Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing 141 (4): 217–222. doi:10.1049/ip-vis:19941330
- ISO 16269-4, Statistical interpretation of data — Part 4: Detection and treatment of outliers
- Strutz, Tilo (2010). Data Fitting and Uncertainty - A practical introduction to weighted least squares and beyond. Vieweg+Teubner. ISBN 978-3-8348-1022-9.
External links[edit]
- Renze, John, "Outlier", MathWorld.
- Balakrishnan, N.; Childs, A. (2001), "Outlier", in Hazewinkel, Michiel, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
- Grubbs test described by NIST manual
- how to detect univariate outliers, how to detect multivariate outliers and how to deal with outliers


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