Problem with a multi-group model

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Problem with a multi-group model

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Dear PLS-Community,

I have got two questions:

1) Under which circumstances should I use Chin's second formula to calculate the t-values for multiple-group-comparison?

2) I'm analyzing one model with 4 different datasets and 1 additional dataset that is built by the mean values of the 4 other datasets (with enough decimal places). After calculating the 5 models I'm a little bit confused, because the path coefficients and total effects of the mean-value-based-model are differing from the results that I get, if I'm calculating the middle values of the path coefficients and total effects of the models based on the 4 different datasets.

Any advice would be very appreciated!!!


Best Regards,
Sandra
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