Candidate models of eQTN locations, ranked by AIC.

The table compares the performance of seven different hierarchical models of eQTN locations. In each model we used either a single ��anchor�� point to predict the locations of eQTNs (e.g., the location of the TSS) or two anchor points (e.g., the TSS and TES locations). The ��TSS+CDSE�� model uses the TSS and the coding sequence end locations as anchors; similarly ��probe�� refers to the location of the probe and ��TXMID�� is the midpoint of the transcript. The second and third columns compare the model listed on that line against the best model (TSS+TES), in terms of the difference in log likelihood (column 2) and the difference in Akaike Information Criterion (AIC, column 3). AIC penalizes the two-anchor models for 51 additional parameters compared to the one-anchor models.