============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- unmerge_d0_5 [metric: success RATE] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = success RATE; day within-window) observed groups: stim n=3, control n=3 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+0.04902/day, rat SD=0.04642, residual SD=0.07858, days=6 true stim:day interaction = +0.04902 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.52 | 0.89 <- observed 5 | 0.92 | 0.97 8 | 1.00 | 1.00 12 | 1.00 | 1.00 16 | 1.00 | 1.00 24 | 1.00 | 1.00 true stim:day interaction = +0.02451 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.12 | 0.34 <- observed 5 | 0.40 | 0.48 8 | 0.62 | 0.72 12 | 0.82 | 0.87 16 | 0.94 | 0.95 24 | 0.99 | 0.99 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).