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We strongly suggest not to "torture" methods until it confesses what you expect. In case of your situation, the coefficients are so small that no variations would lead to a different solution. The problem may be with your data. Please check them again (or collect more data). But if the dat...

Obviously, your data has negative values. But this negative data is positively correlated with something else.

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CR

Hi, you seem to interpret the Bonferroni correction correctly. You would the adjusted probability of error level for your assessment. In PLS-SEM a similar case is the confirmatory tetrad analysis. Here, to judge if a measurement model is reflective or formative, one needs to look at multiple tests p...

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Christian

Hi Ryan You may want to take a look at published PLS-SEM articles in high ranked journals, especially in your discipline. They may serve you as a blueprint. Here you find some PLS-SEM review studies across different disciplines that would be a good start: https://www.smartpls.com/documentation/liter...

Both questions require your theoretical reasoning based on prior publications. Hence, you need to conduct a literature review on brand equity constructs. A good start may be to search for the keywords "PLS" and "brand equity". For the discussion about formative and reflective, yo...

Hmmh, you may ask your supervisor for clarification. S/he may want you to do a moderator analysis or multigroup analysis using the age or the education variables, which would not be uncommon for a TAM model. Also, you may consider conducting an importance-performance map analysis (IPMA). Best regard...

Also, check this recent open-access article on the CB-SEM and PLS-SEM debate: Rigdon, E. E., Sarstedt, M., & Ringle, C. M. (2017). On Comparing Results from CB-SEM and PLS-SEM. Five Perspectives and Five Recommendations. Marketing ZFP, 39(3), 4-16. https://rsw.beck.de/docs/librariesprovider54/de...

Well, we are not so great fans of higher order models but addressed this issue in the advanced PLS-SEM book, Chapter 2: https://www.smartpls.com/documentation/learn-pls-sem-and-smartpls/book-on-advanced-pls-sem-issues "In the next step, you can assess the discriminant validity between the LOCs ...

We have no experience with SAS PROC PLS (i.e., we do not use SAS). Isn't it a PLS regression analysis tool (which differs from PLS-SEM technically). Please check the SAS.

If you need any info on SmartPLS, please get back to use here.

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Christian

This article should include the info you are looking for: Sarstedt, M., Hair, J. F., Ringle, C. M., Thiele, K. O., & Gudergan, S. P. (2016). Estimation Issues with PLS and CBSEM: Where the Bias Lies! Journal of Business Research, 69(10), 3998-4010. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pi...

I don't fully understand the description of your model. Anyways, if you only have one explanatory for an endogenous latent variable, the q² computation does not work - or you could say that Q²_excluded is 0 and, then, plug in the value of Q²_included and 0 for Q² excluded into the equation: q² = (Q²...

Thank so much for your kind feedback!

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Christian

Thanks. You may want to get started with this article (especially the last figure): Sarstedt, M., Hair, J. F., Ringle, C. M., Thiele, K. O., & Gudergan, S. P. (2016). Estimation Issues with PLS and CBSEM: Where the Bias Lies! Journal of Business Research, 69(10), 3998-4010. http://www.sciencedir...