Continuous moderation

Questions about the implementation and application of the PLS-SEM method, that are not related to the usage of the SmartPLS software.
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cstrasse
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Continuous moderation

Post by cstrasse »

Hi,

I am conducting a continuous moderation analysis and I'm interested if SmartPLS 2.0 automatically standardizes the variables if I choose the "standardize indicator values before multiplication" and if yes, how exactly is the data being standardized.

Thanks a lot in advance for a short answer, this would be much appreciated!
jmbecker
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Re: Continuous moderation

Post by jmbecker »

You should not use SmartPLS 2 for moderation analysis. One problem with SmartPLS 2 is that it always standardized the interaction variable. That, however, should not be done as Henseler and Chin (2010) describe. SmartPLS 3 gives correct results.
Dr. Jan-Michael Becker, BI Norwegian Business School, SmartPLS Developer
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