A singular Matrix

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husseins
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A singular Matrix

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Hi there,

once input the data and draw the picture of my model I klicked bootstrap and there is a notification said :"a singular matrix occured during the estimation of final path coefficients" please advise me what's wrong with my data??
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Hi,

Using the search function in the top of this page you will could find others posts about this problem, but usually, the cause is dummy variables as indicators, or indicator without variance (almost constants) or small sample size.

Best regards,

Bido
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