============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- unmerge_d6_13 [metric: success RATE] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = success RATE; day within-window) observed groups: stim n=3, control n=2 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+0.01216/day, rat SD=0.04815, residual SD=0.05028, days=8 true stim:day interaction = +0.01216 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.32 | 0.47 <- observed 5 | 0.63 | 0.76 8 | 0.84 | 0.88 12 | 0.91 | 0.96 16 | 1.00 | 1.00 24 | 1.00 | 1.00 true stim:day interaction = +0.006078 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.07 | 0.17 <- observed 5 | 0.23 | 0.28 8 | 0.27 | 0.35 12 | 0.39 | 0.40 16 | 0.48 | 0.58 24 | 0.83 | 0.84 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).