Q-square predictive relevance test

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mkuppusa
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Q-square predictive relevance test

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Dear PLS users,

Would anyone have some idea how to interpret Q-square results from SmartPLS blindfolding test? Do we look at the 1-SSE/SSO output or something else? Appreciate some tips/guidance.

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Mudiarasan Kuppusamy
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Post by christian.nitzl »

Dear Kuppusamy,
with Q-square you are testing the prediction relevance of your model. Q-square values above zero indicated that your values are well reconstructed and that the model has predictive relevance. You find the right output in SmartPLS at the “Construct Crossvalidated Redundancy” Output. There you have to look at the block with the “Total “ sums. However, as reported elsewhere in this forum, the blindfolding procedure has a bug at the actual release (s. viewtopic.php?t=944). You have pay attention to it. Further theoretical explanations for Q-square you can find in: Henseler, J./Ringle, C. M./Sinkovics, R. (2009): The Use of Partial Least Squares Path Modeling, in: Advances in International Marketing, Vol. 20 on pages 303 to 305.

I hope this helps!

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Post by iris_afandiphd »

Dear Christian,

Thank you for a great explaination
My questions are:

1. How many omission distance needs for running BF
2. I got a big number on TOTAL for every cases, it really more than 0

"Cross-validated R-square (i.e., Stone-Geisser’s Q2) between each endogenous latent variable and its own manifest variables can be calculated automatically in SmartPLS, Stone-Geisser’s Q2 by blindfolding and R2 by running the PLS procedure (Chatelin et al. 2002), and more than 0 is substantial..

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Post by christian.nitzl »

Please check following post:

viewtopic.php?t=1532&highlight=integer

There you can find some information about the omission distance.

Greetings,

Christian
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Post by iris_afandiphd »

Hi Christian,

Thank you for replying.
Do you mean this table

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Post by christian.nitzl »

Hey,

this isn`t the right table. You have to check “construct cross-validated redundancy” instead of “indicator cross-validated redundancy”.

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Christian
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Post by ruchi »

1 )what does cases mean here? I have data of 85 respondents and one of my Latent variable has 3 indicators (manifest variables). Then in this, what will be my omission distance.

2) What about Formative Latent Variables ( whos indicators are formative). Can I calculate Q^2 for this formative construct also.

3) what about my LV with only one indicator
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Post by samaro »

I think it has to do with the omission distance...
Suzanne Amaro
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Post by samaro »

Henseler et al. (2009) said that blindfolding procedures is only applied to latent variables that have a reflective measurement model operationalization.
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