============================================================================== VARIATION: naive_boxa_d6_10 ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = success COUNT) 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, 50 sessions raw day coverage: treat 6..10, control 6..10 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 50 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 405.22 416.69 -196.61 393.22 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 64.543 5.1823 12.454 46 2.4341e-16 {'day' } 5.7857 1.2123 4.7727 46 1.8769e-05 {'stim' } 23.99 9.4616 2.5356 46 0.014689 {'day:stim' } -1.619 2.2133 -0.73152 46 0.46817 Lower Upper 54.111 74.974 3.3456 8.2259 4.9452 43.036 -6.0741 2.836 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (10 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 11.237 Lower Upper 6.7417 18.73 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 10.142 8.1466 12.627 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(46)= -0.73 F(1)= 0.535 p=0.4682 p=0.4687 (df=40) day (learning) t(46)= 4.77 F(1)= 22.779 p=1.877e-05 p=2.436e-05 (df=40) stim (main, window start) t(46)= 2.54 F(1)= 6.429 p=0.01469 p=0.02198 (df=16) interaction 95% CI: [-6.07, +2.84] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,10.0)=0.41, p=0.5344 (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=0.4682, slope diff=-1.62) Paper (N=24): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.