============================================================================== VARIATION: boxa_b2_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-A, Electrode-Box-B2 control (stim=0): Electrode-Box-A2 N = 7 rats, 72 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 72 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 7 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance 587.74 601.4 -287.87 575.74 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 17.308 5.4187 3.1941 68 0.0021263 {'day' } 8.0028 0.78816 10.154 68 2.9164e-15 {'stim' } 1.8623 7.1264 0.26132 68 0.79463 {'day:stim' } 1.604 0.98592 1.6269 68 0.10838 Lower Upper 6.4953 28.121 6.4301 9.5756 -12.358 16.083 -0.36337 3.5714 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (7 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 6.0474 Lower Upper 2.8281 12.931 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 12.425 10.46 14.759 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(68)= 1.63 F(1)= 2.647 p=0.1084 p=0.1084 (df=68) day (learning) t(68)= 10.15 F(1)=103.100 p=2.916e-15 p=2.368e-15 (df=69) stim (main, window start) t(68)= 0.26 F(1)= 0.068 p=0.7946 p=0.7968 (df=18) interaction 95% CI: [-0.36, +3.57] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,22.2)=2.05, p=0.1666 (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=0.1084, slope diff=+1.60) Paper (N=24): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.