============================================================================== VARIATION: naive_boxa_d0_5 [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, Naive N = 11 rats, 63 sessions raw day coverage: treat 0..5, control 0..5 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 63 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 11 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance -89.552 -76.693 50.776 -101.55 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF {'(Intercept)'} 0.20761 0.03353 6.1919 59 {'day' } 0.035262 0.0090474 3.8975 59 {'stim' } -0.042773 0.060953 -0.70173 59 {'day:stim' } 0.057126 0.016495 3.4631 59 pValue Lower Upper 6.1978e-08 0.14052 0.27471 0.000251 0.017158 0.053365 0.4856 -0.16474 0.079194 0.0010002 0.024119 0.090133 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (11 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0.050413 Lower Upper 0.02388 0.10643 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 0.099938 0.082348 0.12129 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(59)= 3.46 F(1)= 11.993 p=0.001 p=0.00108 (df=52) day (learning) t(59)= 3.90 F(1)= 15.190 p=0.000251 p=0.0002756 (df=53) stim (main, window start) t(59)= -0.70 F(1)= 0.492 p=0.4856 p=0.4879 (df=32) interaction 95% CI: [+0.02412, +0.09013] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,12.0)=9.63, p=0.009127 (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 SIGNIFICANT positive -- treatment improves FASTER (benefit accumulates) (p=0.001, slope diff=+0.05713) Paper (N=24, count): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.