PLS vs. SPSS - regression analysis

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fabio.colacchio
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PLS vs. SPSS - regression analysis

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I run a regression Satisfaction=f(value) with SPSS and obtained a Rsquared=0,58.
I run the same regression with PLS and obtained Rsquared=0,999.
The sample is made of 63 cases.
Do you think is it reasonable such difference in Rsuqared? Did I do something wrong?
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Fabio
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Hi,

you probably did include the interception term. This is wrong - the last step of PLS uses (in the formative mode) a multiple Regression of the manifest variables on the latent variable scores and thr R² is close to one. This is always the results if you replicate this step in EXCEL, SPSS, R etc.

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Post by fabio.colacchio »

Hi Christian,
I m not sure this is my case.
Both Value and Satisfaction are latent variables. Each of them has 1 manifest indicator (obtained by summated scales). Furthermore when I run the same regression in PLS with the full sample (N=144 cases) Rsquares is equal to 49,8. When I select the sub-sample it jumps to 0,99. Can it be related to sampling bias?
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