Interpretation of the results of the statistical analysis have to consider issues such as whether the magnitude of the average decrease or the reliability of the BMP is most important, whether the BMP...Interpretation of the results of the statistical analysis have to consider issues such as whether the magnitude of the average decrease or the reliability of the BMP is most important, whether the BMP might actually export bacteria, how location specific the data might be, and how useful a particular BMP might be for related pollutants, in this case for something like E.