nominal and ordinal scales
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viswadatta
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nominal and ordinal scales
How are nominal and ordinal scales used in PLS? Can we specify them in the excel file or the model?
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cringle
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You do not use nominal or ordinal scales in PLS path modeling.
Best regards
Christian
Best regards
Christian
Prof. Dr. Christian M. Ringle, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), SmartPLS
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Ordinal scales
Dear forum members,
I have done a survey using 7-p. ordinal Likert scales (all construct are reflective). I would like to use pls methodology and software.
In Chin Paper (Wynne W. Chin, Barbara L. Marcolin, Peter R. Newsted: A PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES LATENT VARIABLE MODELING APPROACH FOR MEASURING INTERACTION EFFECTS: RESULTS FROM A MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY AND VOICE MAIL EMOTION/ADOPTION STUDY; http://www.plsgraph.com/) it is stated that: "We believe that ordinal or even dichotomous variables can be used as long as there is a large enough set to represent the underlying continuous latent variable." He has developed his own software: PLS-Graph.
My question is if (a) I can use ordinal data in Smartpls under Chin assuption; or alternatively: (b) does Smartpls use the same algorithms as other pls softwares such as f.e. PLS-Graph.
Thank you very much!
Hanna
I have done a survey using 7-p. ordinal Likert scales (all construct are reflective). I would like to use pls methodology and software.
In Chin Paper (Wynne W. Chin, Barbara L. Marcolin, Peter R. Newsted: A PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES LATENT VARIABLE MODELING APPROACH FOR MEASURING INTERACTION EFFECTS: RESULTS FROM A MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY AND VOICE MAIL EMOTION/ADOPTION STUDY; http://www.plsgraph.com/) it is stated that: "We believe that ordinal or even dichotomous variables can be used as long as there is a large enough set to represent the underlying continuous latent variable." He has developed his own software: PLS-Graph.
My question is if (a) I can use ordinal data in Smartpls under Chin assuption; or alternatively: (b) does Smartpls use the same algorithms as other pls softwares such as f.e. PLS-Graph.
Thank you very much!
Hanna