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Dear Christian, Thank you for your compliment. It is a pleasure sharing the solving of my frustration with you and the readers of the forum. My frustration was that the bootstrap procedure for my complex model did not pass 460 samples on my (old) windows. I wanted to run it on my big screen iMac so ...

Dear Christian, Thank you for your compliment. It is a pleasure sharing the solving of my frustration with you and the readers of the forum. My frustration was that the bootstrap procedure for my complex model did not pass 460 samples on my (old) windows. I wanted to run it on my big screen iMac so ...

Thank you Christian, your solution #1 in combination to solution #3 worked well for me on Win7 64bit running with Bootcamp on an iMac (27in). How did I manage? 1. Installed Win7 on iMac using Bootcamp 2. Updated Win7 3. Installed Java SE "Windows x86 Offline" (jre-6u29-windows-i586.exe) (s...

Dear all, For my models I have calculated the AIC, BIC, CAIC and EN. I have no clue however if the values In the first model the values are: AIC=8490, BIC=8722, CAIC=8722 and EN=0,432, in the second model they are: AIC=6669, BIC=6889, CAIC=6889 and EN=0,457. Are these values high, medium or low and ...

Hi Muyiwa,

You may wish to check your Java and (re)install Java 2 Standard-Edition Runtime Environment (J2SE JRE). You need version 5.0 or above, obtainable from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... index.html

Greetings, Dennis

Check this thread for more info on GoF:

viewtopic.php?t=841&highlight=lisrel

Article on Goodness of Fit: author: Wicherts, J.M., Dolan, C.V. title: A Cautionary Note on the Use of Information Fit Indexes in Covariance Structure Modeling With Means journal: Structural Equation Modeling, volume: 11 issue: 1 pages: 45-50. Available at: http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/cautionaryno...

Good article on GoF:

Wicherts, J.M., Dolan, C.V., (2004) A Cautionary Note on the Use of Information Fit Indexes in Covariance Structure Modeling With Means, Structural Equation Modeling, 11(1), pp45-50.

Available at: http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/cautionarynote.pdf

Found out at last:

In the menu: Calculate -> FIMIX-PLS -> apply settings -> Finish

Then:

in the menu: Report -> Default Report (or any other)
in the report: FIMIX-PLS/Quality criteria/Fit Indices

Dear Christian,

Thank you for your help. The article certainly sets me on the good foot for a choice as to why PLS. I'll get the book from the library on Monday. It's available ;-)

All the best,
Dennis

Hello,

In general, when should I use statistical analysis methods and under what conditions should I turn to Smart PLS or SEM? Where can I find this in the literature?

Thank you and a happy New Year to you all,
Dennis

Hello, In various theses I noticed that it is the (apparent) convention to graphically report the outcomes of PLS-PM by arrows pointing from the latent variable to the dependent latent variable. Next to the arrow the path coefficient is reported with asterixes to indicate the significance. Further, ...

Hi Christian,

Thank you for your quick response. I found (the chapter of) the book in the university library and will study this in due course.

Kind regards
Dennis

Hello,

I need to report the GoF AIC, BIC, CAIC and EN of my model. Unfortunately I was not able to find them in SmartPLS. How can I calculate these indicators?

Thank you,
Dennis

Hello, How can I determine if a path coefficient is small, medium or large? What citation (other than this forum :-) can I refer to? e.g.: I have a model of which a part is as follows A->X with path coefficient ,523 B->X with path coefficient ,324 X has R2 of ,608 X->Y with path coefficient ,292 B->...