============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- boxa_a2_d0_10 [metric: # successes (count)] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = # successes (count); day within-window) observed groups: stim n=3, control n=4 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+1.198/day, rat SD=0, residual SD=13.47, days=11 true stim:day interaction = +1.198 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.07 | 0.17 <- observed 5 | 0.20 | 0.24 8 | 0.35 | 0.43 12 | 0.62 | 0.67 16 | 0.72 | 0.72 24 | 0.88 | 0.88 true stim:day interaction = +0.5992 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.07 | 0.08 <- observed 5 | 0.05 | 0.07 8 | 0.10 | 0.11 12 | 0.17 | 0.18 16 | 0.29 | 0.30 24 | 0.31 | 0.33 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).