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There are a lot of posts in this forum about moderating effects with reflective indicators or with mixed measurement models, but what about formative indicators? I've read the paper of Chin/Marcolin/Newstead about modelling moderating effects with reflective indicators and there is a hint on buildin...

OK, I worked myself through another pile of papers (including those you proposed to me, Jörg) and I am indeed much smarter now.

Guess I'm prepared to get done with my analysis. All that's missing until now is the data...

Thanks for your help, John and Jörg!

Best wishes

Sebastian

Alright, yesterday - again - I read some papers with propositions and hints about applying SEM with formative indicators with PLS and I think my confusion slowly disappears, if not completely... So, John, you would say that, due to the specific characteristics of formative indicators (they don't nec...

Thanks for your reply John! I thought about using LISREL or AMOS for the CFA in the first time as well. But the problem with using LISREL for all of my analysis is that 1. I will use formative indicators and 2. my data sample will be really small These two reasons made PLS my first choice. Best rega...

Hi, I try to identify success factors by using PLS and right now, I just have a test data sample to experiment with, but smartPLS won't accept the import of this sample. (I've already discussed this in the "Bugs"-section of this forum) Since I won't have much time, once the "real"...

Hi Christian, thank you for your quick reply. I tried it again with a new Excel Sheet, but smartPLS still remains really stubborn...:-/ Fortunately the data I used was just a test sample, that I used to get familiar with smartPLS, since I will not have lot of time to experiment once the "real&q...

Hi, I have the same problem that Joachim had with importing data to smart PLS, but the proposed solution does not work in my case. Here is what I did: First I extracted data from an online-survey to an excel file. Then I made sure that all cells were filled with numbers and no "." Missing ...