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Hi Robert,
Your two indicators for measuring VL "Company success" were observed. Why you have to make them become laten variable. I prefer to use these indicators as variable (observed variable). Latent variable is used only for likert type scale which you cannot observed directly

Hello Mbak Putri As you see PLS calculating t statistic based on bootstraping. First using resampling method pls calculate SE (standard error), then use this SE to find t statistic by dividing beta coeficient with SE. That is why each time you run bootsraping you get different result for t statistic...

You can dowload Smartpls 2 for window, then install on ubuntu 9.04 via Wine and its work well

Just input your data on excel, the first row will be your variable name and the next row as your data, then save as : CSV (Comma delimited). Now you have data in csv (text ) format

Yes a and b are coeficient regression and sa and sb are standart error of coefficient regression a and b

what about with data metric using original with location instead of mean=0 variance=1.

To get covariance matrix from correlation data, you have also need mean, and its standard deviation. Output of PLS bootstraping will give you mean as well as std dev

What you have to do check your excel setting, whether you have change the setting from comma into semicolon or vice versa (certain countries has their own setting different from the default setting). If it doesn't work just try to save as text(tab delimited) from excel.

An alternative PLS sofwares Tanagra, Visual PLS and Yuan Li can be downloaded. Just go to PLS Related Internet Links , then choose Software applications in this Forum Index.

Hi,
If you have moderating variable it means that your model is not linear because you have high order model with interaction. In term of regression the independent variable become un-intepretable so you don't have to worry with independent variable. Only the interaction variables can be interpreted.

Hi, there is discussion paper 2006 -084 "PLS Path Modeling - A Software Review" by Dirk Temme et al,. You can get the paper from http://sfb649.wiwi.hu-berlin.de or contact temme@wiwi.hu-berlin.de. This paper reviewed 5 PLS softwares: PLS-GUI, VisualPLS, SPAD-PLS,PLS-Graph and SmartPLS. An ...

What do you meant by latent variable without indicator? Is it observed variable? If it is observed variabel, you just put the observed indicator (one indicator) to the latent variable as formative indicator (arrow toward VL) instead of reflexive indicator

Imam Ghozali

Hi, As long as I knew, PLS did not have Chi-square test because it use different methodology compared to covarince based SEM (Amos or Lisrel). PLS based on variance based. What PLS do is just to find the best relationship between variable based on regression (t statistics) and do not justified wheth...

Hi,
This topic has been discussed before. You can do it by repeated measure method. Please see previous discussion on this forum

Hi, Every time I run bootstraping I always get different result of t-statistic value. To decide whether this t-statistic significance or not if i used 10% significance level it will be problem because it is unstable, but if I use 5% or 1% it will get consistent result. Which significance level sholu...