Target.Name	Factor with two levels of either parasite-gene fragment (TB; Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae) or host-gene fragment (ST; Salmo trutta)
Plate	Factor with 83 levels of 83 different 96-well qPCR plates
Well	 Factor with 96 levels for the individual wells on each qPCR plate
Sample.Name	Factor with 696 levels for either one of four dilutions of a reference sample (0.1, 1, 10, 100) or one of 692 trout individuals
Cq.Miner	Continuous variable for the quantification cycle as inferred by the online tool 'Real-time PCR Miner' http://miner.ewindup.info/
Task	Factor with two levels of either a trout individual ("UNKNOWN") or a reference dilution ("STANDARD")
Plate.Sample.Name	Factor with 1218 levels for the interaction of Plate and Sample.Name	
column	Factor / continuous variable for the integer indicating the qPCR plate column from 1 to 12
row	Factor / continuous variable for the integer indicating the qPCR plate row from 1 to 8
row.letter	Factor for the letter indicating the qPCR plate row from A to H
Plate.Well	Factor with 7219 levels indicationg each measurement datum by technical Plate by Well interaction
slope	Continuous variable for linear-mixed model-predicted slope of Cq vs. log10 dilution for the reference dilutions, for each Gene by Plate combination
SlopeEfficiency	Continuous variable that is obtained as 10^(-1/slope)
Ln2Cq.Miner.slope	Continuous variable that is obtained as log2(SlopeEfficiency^Cq.Miner), i.e., the log2-standardized, efficiency-corrected quantification cycle