I want to force (constrain) all the indicators for a formative factor to have positive (or, perhaps better said, non-negative) weights.
Can I do this with SmartPLS ?
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- Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:57 am
- Forum: Method and application
- Topic: Forcing formative latent vbles to have positive weights
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2168
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:00 pm
- Forum: SmartPLS 3 - Requested Features
- Topic: Display of sample size
- Replies: 2
- Views: 71618
Display of sample size
I almost always filter out cases with missing values using the routine in SmartPLS. Can the resulting sample size be displayed? So far as I can tell, this is not included in the report either. (But, as always, I might be wrong.)
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:58 pm
- Forum: SmartPLS 3 - Requested Features
- Topic: Simultaneous display of coefficients and significance
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6081
Simultaneous display of coefficients and significance
I may have this wrong, but can the next version include the option to simultaneously display the weights/coefficients/etc _and_ the t statistics (from bootstrapping) ?
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:53 pm
- Forum: SmartPLS 3 - Requested Features
- Topic: Recursive modelling?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5281
I managed to have a non-recursive component in my model by including the same factor and its indicators _twice_ ... i.e. as two separate constructs. That way I could have an arrow going in one direction from the first factor to a third factor and an arrow going in the other direction from the third ...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:14 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: How do I find the actual number of cases used ?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1538
How do I find the actual number of cases used ?
I have a file with lots of missing values, and have used the casewise deletion option. Apologies for the (dumb) question, but where in the output do I find the number of cases that were actually used in the analysis ?
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:53 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: problem with loading data in smartPLS
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6424
- Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:33 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: A hint for when it won't calibrate
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1695
A hint for when it won't calibrate
Not infrequently, when running a model off a big database (.csv file) the calibration process seems to halt and nothing happens, or else it simply doesn't even get to iteration zero. This is after I have requested lots of memory via the options. Invariably, however, I can fix this simply by closing ...
- Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:38 pm
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: Data, Indicators
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2704
- Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:42 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: Remove Resource
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3080
I think this may be a major bug - if I save the data (.csv or .txt) into the same directory as the project, then when importing the data it actually shows no data in the validation window and it also deletes the datafile from the directory. By experimenting, it seems that by having the datafile NOT ...
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:07 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 3 - Requested Features
- Topic: Variance-covariance input
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3833
This option would also solve the problem of not currently being able to analysis weighted data sets, since the variances/covariances can be computed on a weighted basis. I have used this trick with AMOS to enable weighted models to be run (although what it does to the interpretation of significance ...
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:03 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 3 - Requested Features
- Topic: Run model while omitting variables
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4560
- Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:38 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 3 - Requested Features
- Topic: automatize Smart PLS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6179
Re: automatize Smart PLS
Hello, I have a question about running the same model many times with different datasets. I have a huge data set with one classification variable and it is lots of work to manually run the software for every value of the class variable. Is there any way to automatize the Smart PLS software, so that...
- Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:40 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: Two almost identical models but one won't run
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2631
Well, it did turn out to be a memory problem after all. This time, on starting up I went straight in to SmartPLS without loading any other programs (SPSS, Word, Excel etc) and this seemed to leave enough memory available for the non-running model to run. Plus ... I have now upgraded to 4mB RAM inste...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:33 am
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: Two almost identical models but one won't run
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2631
Re: Two almost identical models but one won't run
No, that didn't work :-(alan_scott wrote: t looks like it might be a memory problem so I will try increasing the allocation:
When I delete one of the factors altogether, it runs OK. But that same factor is included in the other model without any problems. So I still don't know what is going on.
Scott
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:39 pm
- Forum: SmartPLS 2 - FAQ
- Topic: Two almost identical models but one won't run
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2631
Two almost identical models but one won't run
I have two databases (.CSV format) and models which are almost identical except for two variables. Both CSV files validate OK. One model runs OK and quickly. the other one does not show a progress bar and produces no results. The problem is, because there is no output when the model doesn't run (unl...