============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- unmerge_d0_13 [metric: # successes (count)] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = # successes (count); day within-window) observed groups: stim n=3, control n=3 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+1.547/day, rat SD=0, residual SD=14.68, days=14 true stim:day interaction = +1.547 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.22 | 0.56 <- observed 5 | 0.53 | 0.69 8 | 0.82 | 0.88 12 | 0.97 | 1.00 16 | 0.98 | 0.98 24 | 1.00 | 1.00 true stim:day interaction = +0.7733 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.12 | 0.22 <- observed 5 | 0.21 | 0.23 8 | 0.42 | 0.43 12 | 0.50 | 0.52 16 | 0.64 | 0.71 24 | 0.78 | 0.74 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).