============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- naive_boxa_d0_5 [metric: # successes (count)] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = # successes (count); day within-window) observed groups: stim n=3, control n=8 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+6.403/day, rat SD=9.103, residual SD=12.48, days=6 true stim:day interaction = +6.403 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.36 | 0.77 <- observed 5 | 0.79 | 0.92 8 | 0.98 | 0.98 <- observed 12 | 1.00 | 1.00 16 | 1.00 | 1.00 24 | 1.00 | 1.00 true stim:day interaction = +3.202 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.11 | 0.24 <- observed 5 | 0.26 | 0.39 8 | 0.44 | 0.51 <- observed 12 | 0.69 | 0.74 16 | 0.82 | 0.84 24 | 0.95 | 0.94 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).