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Dear Expert; I am trying to incorporate control variables such as demographic and socio-economic status .. etc in my model. The model is straight forward predictor variable with potential moderator and one construct as a response. The idea is to find the effect of the predictor taking into considera...

I am a new researcher using PLS SEM for my dissertation and am trying to learn and apply SmartPLS as the analysis tool. I would like to pay a consulting fee to have an experienced researcher or statistician help ensure that my data collection (via SurveyMonkey), coding, saved formats, and data manip...

I have various constructs: one of the construsts called Relation diminsion: it is measured by likert scale statment ''strogley agree- Disagre'' and I also have another construct called size which use categorical scale: size of contact: 0, 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-25, 25-5-0.. here how do I deal with the...

Dear Expert, This is a good question and similar to what I have in mind, could you also please explain what happen if we have a third order formative construct. I have a similar problem: first order I guess should be reflective , by reflective I mean made from three statement that represent it and b...

Hi all, For an item or indicator; what is best to do reflective or formative. Knowing that first order formative construct is made of indicators/items which are /questions/statements. if your take out any of the these items the first order construct is not effected... Does that means your first orde...

Hi all, For an item or indicator; what type of scal should be used. I see many suggest likert scal of 5 or 7 and some suggest its the only likert scale to be used in PLS. but in my case: I have a a first order construct called size of a business network(meaning number of contact for a person) which ...