============================================================================== VARIATION: boxa_b2_d0_10 [metric: success RATE (success/attempts)] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = success RATE (success/attempts)) 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 -125.6 -111.94 68.799 -137.6 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 0.22991 0.038687 5.9428 68 1.07e-07 {'day' } 0.040788 0.0055544 7.3434 68 3.402e-10 {'stim' } 0.0034269 0.050885 0.067345 68 0.9465 {'day:stim' } 0.013172 0.0069458 1.8964 68 0.062154 Lower Upper 0.15271 0.30711 0.029705 0.051872 -0.098113 0.10497 -0.00068802 0.027032 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (7 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0.043995 Lower Upper 0.020897 0.092622 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 0.087482 0.073647 0.10392 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(68)= 1.90 F(1)= 3.596 p=0.06215 p=0.06217 (df=68) day (learning) t(68)= 7.34 F(1)= 53.926 p=3.402e-10 p=3.124e-10 (df=69) stim (main, window start) t(68)= 0.07 F(1)= 0.005 p=0.9465 p=0.9471 (df=18) interaction 95% CI: [-0.000688, +0.02703] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,62.1)=3.56, p=0.06388 (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=0.06215, slope diff=+0.01317) Paper (N=24, count): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.