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Hi Bido, If I follow the paper of Henseler, Ringle and Sinkovics (2009) in assessing the convergent validity and discriminant validity, the number of items per construct reduced from 10 to 2. Do you have other references regarding the rule of thumb of convergent validity and discriminant validity st...

Hi Christian,

Did Prof Bido provide you the reference?

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How to copy the smartpls path diagram to MSword?

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Hello Henky,

May I know what is wrong if I will just use two indicators, instead of three as minimum indicators?

Thank you.
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My model consists of one Independent LV, one dependent LV, two latent mediators, and two moderating dichotomous variables. My sample size is 53. Is there no problem if I will use only one model for all these variables?

Can I use SMARTPLS for an endogenous latent variable with dichotomous items/indicators? The items are coded 1 for correct and 0 for wrong answers.

Thanks a lot.

Hi everyone, I have three contructs (each with 8 items that used a 5-point Likert options) with reflective indicators. Two of the constructs serve as the independent variable and dependent variable, while the other is the mediator variable. First, I assessed the convergent validity of each construct...

Dear SmartPLS Experts,

May I know why the Bootstrap report of SMARTPLS does not include the T-Statistics for INDIRECT/Mediation EFFECT?

Thank you.
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All,

Do you mean Bootstrap Report of SmartPLS does not include T-Statistics for the indirect effect? T Statistics ONLY for total and direct are provided, Am I correct?

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Dear Hengky, NO. I think the report contains only the direct effect and total effect. because both direct and total effects are available, we can easily compute the indirect effect using the formula: Indirect effect = Total effect - direct effect. Now I am looking for the T Statistic for the indirec...

Hi,

Is there a bootstrap report for the significance of the indirect effect or mediation effect? Where in the SMARTPLS report can we find it?

Sincerely,
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Hi,

You said the difference between total and direct effect will be the indirect effect. I agree. Can we test using SMARTPLS that the indirect effect is significant?

Thank you.

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Hi Bido, Thank you for your reply. Two follow-up questions: 1) what is the difference between outer loading and outer weight? 2) Considering the three constructs that I described, I also tried to test a mediation model. I cant see the indirect effect or the mediation effect in the default report. Wh...

Dear SMARTPLS Users,

A have a model with two exogenous and one endogenous constructs. I want to include age variable in the model, where age is an observed variable. I don't know how to include observed variable in SmartPLS. Any advise please?

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