============================================================================== VARIATION: boxa_a2_d6_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-B2 control (stim=0): Electrode-Box-A, Electrode-Box-A2 N = 6 rats, 30 sessions raw day coverage: treat 6..10, control 6..10 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 30 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 6 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance -67.521 -59.114 39.761 -79.521 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF {'(Intercept)'} 0.54193 0.035861 15.112 26 {'day' } 0.015949 0.010163 1.5693 26 {'stim' } 0.10168 0.050715 2.0049 26 {'day:stim' } -0.0037489 0.014373 -0.26083 26 pValue Lower Upper 2.1656e-14 0.46821 0.61564 0.12868 -0.0049418 0.036839 0.05549 -0.0025676 0.20592 0.79628 -0.033292 0.025795 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (6 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0.044709 Lower Upper 0.021196 0.094306 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 0.055665 0.041949 0.073866 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(26)= -0.26 F(1)= 0.068 p=0.7963 p=0.7964 (df=24) day (learning) t(26)= 1.57 F(1)= 2.463 p=0.1287 p=0.1297 (df=24) stim (main, window start) t(26)= 2.00 F(1)= 4.020 p=0.05549 p=0.06743 (df=12) interaction 95% CI: [-0.03329, +0.02579] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,6.0)=0.04, p=0.8467 (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=0.7963, slope diff=-0.003749) Paper (N=24, count): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.