============================================================================== VARIATION: unmerge_d0_10 ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = success COUNT) day = training day within window (0 = first analyzed day) treatment (stim=1): Electrode-Box-B2 control (stim=0): Electrode-Box-A2 N = 6 rats, 61 sessions raw day coverage: treat 0..10, control 0..10 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 61 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 6 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance 499.59 512.25 -243.79 487.59 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 17.372 5.1906 3.3469 57 0.0014518 {'day' } 7.9666 0.79053 10.077 57 2.8317e-14 {'stim' } 4.9763 7.2862 0.68298 57 0.49739 {'day:stim' } 1.5577 1.0483 1.4858 57 0.14283 Lower Upper 6.9783 27.766 6.3836 9.5496 -9.614 19.567 -0.5416 3.6569 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (6 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 5.3536 Lower Upper 2.1542 13.305 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 12.508 10.37 15.086 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(57)= 1.49 F(1)= 2.208 p=0.1428 p=0.1428 (df=57) day (learning) t(57)= 10.08 F(1)=101.556 p=2.832e-14 p=1.931e-14 (df=59) stim (main, window start) t(57)= 0.68 F(1)= 0.466 p=0.4974 p=0.5037 (df=17) interaction 95% CI: [-0.54, +3.66] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,13.0)=1.46, p=0.2479 (Satterthwaite DF ~= residual on this random-intercept model; the random-slope model above is the honest learning-rate test -- DF collapses toward the animal count.) INTERPRETATION: stim x day interaction n.s. -- slopes parallel (no differential learning rate) (p=0.1428, slope diff=+1.56) Paper (N=24): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.