============================================================================== VARIATION: boxa_a2_d0_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 N = 7 rats, 72 sessions raw day coverage: treat 0..10, control 0..10 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 72 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 7 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance 590.8 604.46 -289.4 578.8 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 15.599 3.8531 4.0485 68 0.00013444 {'day' } 8.3258 0.69175 12.036 68 1.6397e-18 {'stim' } 6.7494 5.8389 1.1559 68 0.25175 {'day:stim' } 1.1985 1.0141 1.1818 68 0.2414 Lower Upper 7.9104 23.288 6.9454 9.7061 -4.9019 18.401 -0.82514 3.2221 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (7 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0 Lower Upper NaN NaN Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 13.471 11.441 15.861 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(68)= 1.18 F(1)= 1.397 p=0.2414 p=0.2412 (df=72) day (learning) t(68)= 12.04 F(1)=144.862 p=1.64e-18 p=6.575e-19 (df=72) stim (main, window start) t(68)= 1.16 F(1)= 1.336 p=0.2517 p=0.2515 (df=72) interaction 95% CI: [-0.83, +3.22] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,14.0)=0.68, p=0.4245 (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=0.2414, slope diff=+1.20) Paper (N=24): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.