============================================================================== VARIATION: unmerge_d6_13 [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-A2 N = 5 rats, 34 sessions raw day coverage: treat 6..13, control 6..13 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 34 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 5 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance -85.035 -75.877 48.518 -97.035 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 0.53562 0.0416 12.875 30 9.415e-14 {'day' } 0.0032833 0.0069042 0.47554 30 0.63784 {'stim' } 0.10269 0.053584 1.9164 30 0.06488 {'day:stim' } 0.012156 0.0086128 1.4114 30 0.16841 Lower Upper 0.45066 0.62058 -0.010817 0.017384 -0.0067429 0.21212 -0.0054334 0.029746 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (5 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0.048154 Lower Upper 0.023654 0.098032 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 0.050284 0.038906 0.064989 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(30)= 1.41 F(1)= 1.992 p=0.1684 p=0.1684 (df=30) day (learning) t(30)= 0.48 F(1)= 0.226 p=0.6378 p=0.6378 (df=30) stim (main, window start) t(30)= 1.92 F(1)= 3.673 p=0.06488 p=0.09052 (df=8) interaction 95% CI: [-0.005433, +0.02975] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,2.3)=0.03, p=0.8749 (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=0.1684, slope diff=+0.01216) Paper (N=24, count): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.