============================================================================== POWER SIMULATION -- boxa_a2_d6_10 ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (success COUNT; day within-window) observed groups: stim n=3, control n=3 nrep=120, alpha=0.05 ground truth: stim:day=+1.00/day, rat SD=6.34, residual SD=8.21, days=5 true stim:day interaction = +1.00 (100% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.03 | 0.05 <- observed 5 | 0.09 | 0.13 8 | 0.10 | 0.11 12 | 0.12 | 0.14 16 | 0.12 | 0.14 24 | 0.27 | 0.32 true stim:day interaction = +0.50 (50% of observed) N/group | per-animal power | LME power ------------------------------------------ 3 | 0.05 | 0.09 <- observed 5 | 0.07 | 0.07 8 | 0.05 | 0.07 12 | 0.09 | 0.09 16 | 0.08 | 0.11 24 | 0.12 | 0.12 Read the per-animal column as the honest power. At the observed N this study is typically underpowered; per-animal power reaches ~0.8 only at larger N.