If one is spotting the 20 microlitre spots directly and dilutions from total 1 ml of unknown CFU sample. If one gets one or two colonies on two plate and no colonies on plate on other four plates. How one can interpret the data on categorised scatter plot. Specifically question are below
1) how to take average or mean ?
2) How to show the points of clear plates ?
If one colony appears it has log value of 1.698. But if no colony it may be any value between 0-1.698.