Sablefish recruitment can be characterized as being low for most years with rare, periodic large recruitment events. These large estimates of recruitment can be quite influential on mean recruitment, which are used to estimate BRPs. Would some other approach be more justifiable? For example, we could use median recruitment or eliminate outliers and take the mean (i.e. recruitment that fall outside of the IQR).
Sablefish recruitment can be characterized as being low for most years with rare, periodic large recruitment events. These large estimates of recruitment can be quite influential on mean recruitment, which are used to estimate BRPs. Would some other approach be more justifiable? For example, we could use median recruitment or eliminate outliers and take the mean (i.e. recruitment that fall outside of the IQR).