MathGeek,
I am very interested in this data, but I am concerned.
You need to be frank with the public here that you cannot make inferences from descriptive data (your histograms), unless you have performed some statistical tests.
There are so many variables (competing hypotheses) that can account for this data besides unseeded oyster reefs.
If you have conducted some tests - then show the public. I will be happy to be mistaken if I see these data in a professional publication that's refereed.
If you can't, then you are making the same mistake you accuse CCA and the LWF Commission in accepting data from another professional that wasn't published.
Please, I do think that at least your descriptive statistics are important, but exciting the public who have no experience in design, methodology and statistics to judge your descriptive data makes me wonder here.
It also injures the public we rely on to continue funding research of our natural resources. If you do not want to send me citations here - fine! Send it by e-mail.
I will be happy to look at your descriptive data to see if we can make meaningful inferences from it.
But again, I applaud your posting these histograms - you are doing something about what I feel is not only affecting Big Lake, but all of coastal Louisiana.
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