============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- unmerge_d6_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=2 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+2.267/day, rat SD=7.117, residual SD=7.733, days=8 true stim:day interaction = +2.267 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.46 | 0.62 <- observed 5 | 0.77 | 0.90 8 | 0.95 | 0.99 12 | 1.00 | 1.00 16 | 1.00 | 1.00 24 | 1.00 | 1.00 true stim:day interaction = +1.133 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.12 | 0.20 <- observed 5 | 0.27 | 0.38 8 | 0.41 | 0.47 12 | 0.54 | 0.62 16 | 0.72 | 0.74 24 | 0.91 | 0.93 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).