============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- right_only_d0_10 [metric: # successes (count)] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = # successes (count); day within-window) observed groups: stim n=4, control n=3 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+1.73/day, rat SD=5.346, residual SD=11.96, days=11 true stim:day interaction = +1.73 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.22 | 0.39 <- observed 5 | 0.52 | 0.65 8 | 0.80 | 0.82 12 | 0.97 | 0.98 16 | 0.98 | 0.98 24 | 1.00 | 1.00 true stim:day interaction = +0.865 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.12 | 0.12 <- observed 5 | 0.11 | 0.18 8 | 0.31 | 0.32 12 | 0.38 | 0.41 16 | 0.62 | 0.62 24 | 0.74 | 0.71 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).