============================================================================== LINEAR MIXED MODEL (days x tDCS) -- scenario: lme_unmerged_d0_10 ============================================================================== model: success ~ day * tDCS + (1|subject) [tDCS: Electrode-Box-B2 = 1 vs Electrode-Box-A2 = 0] N = 6 subjects, 61 sessions day coverage: Box-B2 0..10, Box-A2 0..10 (day is raw and 0-indexed: our day 0 = the paper's "Day 1", so the tDCS main effect below is the group difference on Day 1 -- comparable to the paper.) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme: success ~ day*tDCS + (1|subject) ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 61 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 6 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: success ~ 1 + day*tDCS + (1 | subject) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance 499.59 512.25 -243.79 487.59 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 17.372 5.1906 3.3469 57 0.0014518 {'day' } 7.9666 0.79053 10.077 57 2.8317e-14 {'tDCS' } 4.9763 7.2862 0.68298 57 0.49739 {'day:tDCS' } 1.5577 1.0483 1.4858 57 0.14283 Lower Upper 6.9783 27.766 6.3836 9.5496 -9.614 19.567 -0.5416 3.6569 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: subject (6 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 5.3536 Lower Upper 2.1542 13.305 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 12.508 10.37 15.086 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ days x tDCS (interaction) t(57)= 1.49 F(1)= 2.208 p=0.1428 p=0.1428 (df=57) days (learning) t(57)= 10.08 F(1)=101.556 p=2.832e-14 p=1.931e-14 (df=59) tDCS (main, at Day 1) t(57)= 0.68 F(1)= 0.466 p=0.4974 p=0.5037 (df=17) HONEST LME -- per-animal random slope (day|subject): interaction F(1,13.0)=1.46, p=0.2479 Note: Satterthwaite DF on the random-INTERCEPT model above stays ~= residual (the slope's error is at the session level), so it does NOT fix pseudoreplication. Letting each animal have its OWN slope collapses the interaction DF toward the animal count -- this, and the per-animal slope test, are the honest learning-rate inference. INTERPRETATION - days x tDCS interaction: n.s. (p=0.1428, slope diff=1.56) -> slopes are parallel (no differential change over training). - days (learning): SIGNIFICANT (p=2.8e-14) -> performance improves with training. - tDCS main effect on Day 1 (our day 0): n.s. (p=0.4974) -> the groups are comparable (as in the paper) on Day 1. Paper reference (N=24): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008; days t(227)=9.64, F(1)=267.64, p=1.2e-18; tDCS t(227)=0.23, F(1)=0.053, p=0.81. (Our N and exact statistics differ; this replicates the MODEL FORM on our data.)