============================================================================== VARIATION: naive_boxa_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-A, Electrode-Box-A2, Naive N = 10 rats, 73 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 73 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 10 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance -143.92 -130.17 77.958 -155.92 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 0.50639 0.029658 17.074 69 1.7857e-26 {'day' } 0.013881 0.0046444 2.9887 69 0.0038784 {'stim' } 0.13179 0.05426 2.4289 69 0.017756 {'day:stim' } 0.0016506 0.0088296 0.18693 69 0.85226 Lower Upper 0.44722 0.56555 0.0046157 0.023146 0.023544 0.24004 -0.015964 0.019265 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (10 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0.061972 Lower Upper 0.036939 0.10397 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 0.073458 0.061716 0.087434 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(69)= 0.19 F(1)= 0.035 p=0.8523 p=0.8523 (df=65) day (learning) t(69)= 2.99 F(1)= 8.933 p=0.003878 p=0.003964 (df=64) stim (main, window start) t(69)= 2.43 F(1)= 5.899 p=0.01776 p=0.02572 (df=18) interaction 95% CI: [-0.01596, +0.01927] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,8.1)=0.00, p=0.9836 (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=0.8523, slope diff=+0.001651) Paper (N=24, count): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.