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Thank you Hengkov...can I ask one another stupid question, like SmartPLS uses Least Squares method for estimation then how about AMOS? please with thanks

I hope it would be not a stupid question to ask "why we call it partial least squares"...what the name suggests? is it show something partially?

Thank you. Sure I know we cannot run CTA-PLS in SmartPLS but I want to do it in any other software. I want to do it to confirm whether I should take reflective or formative items. I read some literature but is not so practical and seems very difficult to follow. Thanking you.

Please if anyone can provide a reference (video much better) practical tutorial for confirmatory tetrad analysis PLS (CTA-PLS) how to contact it. I have read all literature but I want a practical tutorial. I want to use it to test/confirm whether my some of variables’ items should be formative or re...

Here you are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98JMhgtvf3Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPeUTKjMF7o

Please it would be nice if anyone can provide his/her Ph.D thesis used SmartPLS (in English only) with regards.

Thanks a lot. I already got and read the paper Chin and Gopal paper (1995).

Check Chin and Gopal paper (1995) in The DATABASE Information System and some paper in journal chemometric but I forget the title.

Best Regards,
Hengky[/quote]

Really thank you, you really solved my big problem. Please let me confirm again. It means Molar = First order construct Type II and second-order construct with Type IV Molecular = First order construct Type IV and second-order construct with Type III. It also means that we must have other types mola...

Really thank you but now what is Type I, II, III and IV. Regards.

Please what is the difference between molecular second-order factor and molar second-order factor (also with both with reflective and formative dimensions), Regards.

Please what is meant by "the metric of organizational size is the logarithm of the number of employees of the firm" and the logarithm of the number of years since firm foundation? and how to make logarithm please.

Dear Ismail,
Really thank you for your kind guidance. I will follow your instructions.

Hello, Greetings From the last few days I am trying to learn the Product Indicator Approach (Chin et al., 1996) for interaction effects but still I could not understand it. Therefore, I would be very thankful if anyone could facilitate me in this regard and if could share some solved solutions for f...

hi anuthrasirisena!
did you solve the problem? please i am getting the same error.
An error has occurred, see the log file
c:\Program Files\ SmartPLS2\ configuration\1318596401245.log

Would you mind to help me.