HTMT

[paoduarte]

How should negative HTMT coefficients be interpreted?

Thank you

[Hengkov]

Hi,

Please show negative HTMT you mean. I do not understand the negative HTMT which one you mean.

Greetings,

[paoduarte]

Thank you for your reply.

My HTMT matrix is:

Compatibility Complexity Purchase Intentions
Compatibility
Complexity -0,641
Purchase Intentions 0,815 -0,582

Is it normal to get this result?
How should this be interpreted?

[Hengkov]

Hi,

Yes, it is normal, no problem. You only need to compare it with the standard value HTMT by placing it on a diagonal line as Fornell-Lacker criteria. See the video below for more details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Oy-St ... e=youtu.be

Greetings,

[paoduarte]

Thanks.

[cringle]

Hi

prinicpally HTMT is normed between -1 and +1 and it should be significantly different from -1 and +1. However, negative correlations cause trouble. For this reason, we will change the HTMT computation for the ease of use in the next SmartPLS 3 release.

Check this link and the note at the end of the page:
https://www.smartpls.com/documentation/ ... assessment

Best regards,
Christian Ringle

[Choukri]

Hi,
The following matrix is a part of the full matrix (of my research) for assening desciminant validity by HTMT, I utilized the same forme of Matrix that Henseler et al. (2015) have used in their articles.

How should I interprete it?
Is the value 0.00, that is included in the matrix, acceptable?

……………………………………………..………Trust………………..…………….…Loyalty

Consumer innovativeness…………...0.08
…………………………………………………..…CI.900[-0.02;0.17]

Variety-seeking……………………..…...0.13……………………………..……0.09
…………………………………………………..…CI.900[0.03;0.22]………….. CI.900[0.00;0.17]

Thank you SmartPLS team

[cringle]

The goal of the HTMT criterion is that your results are significantly different from 1. Thus, you results are fine.