Smartpls vs SPSS

mazi · Post by **mazi** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:08 pm

hi every body I am going to defence my thesis and one of my referees asks me why dont you check your results with SPSS in addition to Smartpls and I am seeking to find some advantages of this software, can any one help me to justify the use of this sofware alone not in addition to spss
Best regards
Nazila

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Sat May 07, 2011 1:07 pm

Hi,

- In SPSS you will use a summated rating scale or principal components approach, that regardless the correlation between LV. (PLS-PM try to maximizing the explanation of the dependent LV).

- In AMOS (the SPSS software to structural equation modeling based in covariance) we purpose of the study will be theory test, see
HENSELER, J.; RINGLE, C. M.; SINKOVICS, R. R. The use of partial least squares path modeling in international marketing. Advances in International Marketing, v. 20, p. 277-319, 2009.
Available at: <http://php.portals.mbs.ac.uk/Portals/49 ... cs-PLS.pdf>.

Best regards

Bido

mazi · Post by **mazi** » Sun May 08, 2011 6:04 am

Thank you so much
however I have some trouble.
I think SPSS has the ability to compute the correlation between two LV.
I think you mean spss does these two analysis seperately, however in smartpls these two analysis are done simultaneously. is it true?
again thank you
best regards
Nazila Babakhani

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Sun May 08, 2011 12:12 pm