============================================================================== VARIATION: boxa_a2_d0_10 [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 N = 7 rats, 72 sessions raw day coverage: treat 0..10, control 0..10 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 72 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 7 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance -124.36 -110.7 68.18 -136.36 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 0.21277 0.032537 6.5394 68 9.4885e-09 {'day' } 0.04572 0.0046771 9.7753 68 1.3713e-14 {'stim' } 0.042139 0.049417 0.85273 68 0.3968 {'day:stim' } 0.0072048 0.0067664 1.0648 68 0.29074 Lower Upper 0.14785 0.2777 0.036387 0.055053 -0.056471 0.14075 -0.0062973 0.020707 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (7 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0.040493 Lower Upper 0.018248 0.089857 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 0.088826 0.074767 0.10553 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(68)= 1.06 F(1)= 1.134 p=0.2907 p=0.2908 (df=67) day (learning) t(68)= 9.78 F(1)= 95.556 p=1.371e-14 p=1.275e-14 (df=68) stim (main, window start) t(68)= 0.85 F(1)= 0.727 p=0.3968 p=0.4044 (df=19) interaction 95% CI: [-0.006297, +0.02071] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,29.1)=0.97, p=0.3332 (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=0.2907, slope diff=+0.007205) Paper (N=24, count): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.