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Hi all,

I received an error message when running the bootstrapping. It says "An error occurred during the outside estimation. Maybe there are too few observations". The data has been validated. It's ok.
My dataset contains 1688 records, so I set the number of cases to 1688, and samples to 2000.

Any suggestions about possible causes for the issue? Thanks in advance!

Best,
Han

Hi,
This problem show because you have many latent variable with single. Indicator. According to Wold state PLS need many indicator for consistent at large ( > 3). Diamantopoulos et al. (2012) provide rule of thumb for used single or multi-items (check it).

Regards,
Hengky

Hi,
This problem show because you have many latent variable with single indicator. According to Wold state PLS need many indicator for consistent at large ( > 3). Diamantopoulos et al. (2012) provide rule of thumb for used single or multi-items (check it).

Regards,
Hengky