============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- naive_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=7 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+1.434/day, rat SD=8.753, residual SD=13.78, days=11 true stim:day interaction = +1.434 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.09 | 0.23 <- observed 5 | 0.33 | 0.38 8 | 0.48 | 0.53 12 | 0.74 | 0.78 16 | 0.84 | 0.84 24 | 0.95 | 0.94 true stim:day interaction = +0.7169 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.07 | 0.09 <- observed 5 | 0.07 | 0.12 8 | 0.12 | 0.16 12 | 0.21 | 0.25 16 | 0.38 | 0.36 24 | 0.47 | 0.47 Read the per-animal column as the honest power; LME is optimistic (obs-level DF).