============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- naive_a2_d6_10 [metric: # successes (count)] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = # successes (count); day within-window) observed groups: stim n=3, control n=6 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=-1.8/day, rat SD=10.99, residual SD=10.55, days=5 true stim:day interaction = -1.8 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.06 | 0.09 <- observed 5 | 0.06 | 0.07 8 | 0.17 | 0.24 12 | 0.30 | 0.30 16 | 0.33 | 0.34 24 | 0.45 | 0.49 true stim:day interaction = -0.9 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.03 | 0.07 <- observed 5 | 0.07 | 0.07 8 | 0.05 | 0.12 12 | 0.07 | 0.08 16 | 0.11 | 0.11 24 | 0.13 | 0.14 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).