Model Paths Significance

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Powino20
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Model Paths Significance

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When does someone leave a path in the model even if it is not significant? and does any one know of any citations to that effect ?
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Re: Model Paths Significance

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Such a path does not change your results. I leave it to show that something that I expected cannot be substantiated by the empirical data. Also, this could be a results of full mediation. Take a look at our PLS literature recommendations:
https://www.smartpls.com/documentation/literature

Here you find many studies that report nonsiginificant paths.

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