Huge t-statistic. How come?

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pabloem
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Huge t-statistic. How come?

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I have a model where four of my variables come from entiment analysis of text. These are: C2B_PTP, C2B_PTS, C2B_SP, C2B_SS.
For some reason, they are showing me a very very high t-statistics (see figure). Also when running PLS Algorithm, their factor loadings are 1.000.
I already checked the data, and these variables are not proportional. They have correlation, but it's not perfect correlation. So I don't know what could be wrong here.
Anyone know what could be the reason my variables have 1.000 factor loading and huge t-statistic?
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Re: Huge t-statistic. How come?

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Maybe during the import there was a problem with the decimal sign so that you important numbers in a different format.
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Re: Huge t-statistic. How come?

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Same problem is with me.. my one variable factor loading value is 1 (as pasted below)... what is the reason?
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Re: Huge t-statistic. How come?

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It is a single-indicator construct. Those have per definition in PLS an outer loading of 1, i.e., construct and indicator are per definition equal.
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