MGA with empty field - interpretation?

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mypa1
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MGA with empty field - interpretation?

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Hi all,

first, I'm new to smartpls, so if my question is to basic please apologize.
I'm running a gender analysis with PLS-MGA. Here, the complete Path Coef. for "A --> B" is 0.322, for male 0.498 and for female -0.180.
However, when I run the multi group analysis and open the tap PLS-MGA, the p-value field do not display anything (no number nor a sign). It only shows the Path Coef. difference. All other relationships (e.g. A --> C; C --> B .......) are shown with Path Coef. Difference as well as appropriate p-values.

Now I'd like to know if the empty field equals 0 or how should I interpret this?
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Re: MGA with empty field - interpretation?

Post by cringle »

Maybe you selected the "toggle zero values" option (see the menu bar) and the p value is very close to zero.

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Christian
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