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Conducting PCA before PLS-SEM
Posted: Tue May 23, 2023 4:47 pm
by Tarek H. Fayed
Can I perform Principal component analysis (PCA) on SPSS to investigate the factor structure of each construct separately and use these factor structurs to conduct PLS-SEM on SmartPls? (all first and second order constructs are reflective).
Re: Conducting PCA before PLS-SEM
Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 3:12 am
by Tarek H. Fayed
Any response?
Re: Conducting PCA before PLS-SEM
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:57 pm
by dcwilliams
Yes, given that SmartPLS does not enable the assessment of factor structure via EFA, SPSS (Principal component method) can be used. Also, given that SPSS does not enable the confirmation of factor structure via assessment of CFA, SmartPLS SEM comes to the rescue.