============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- unmerge_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=2 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+1.767/day, rat SD=6.107, residual SD=8.629, days=5 true stim:day interaction = +1.767 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.05 | 0.10 <- observed 5 | 0.16 | 0.20 8 | 0.17 | 0.28 12 | 0.26 | 0.30 16 | 0.44 | 0.42 24 | 0.57 | 0.58 true stim:day interaction = +0.8833 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.07 | 0.11 <- observed 5 | 0.07 | 0.11 8 | 0.06 | 0.08 12 | 0.12 | 0.13 16 | 0.13 | 0.17 24 | 0.22 | 0.23 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).