Modelling Causal Chain

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Tobi
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Modelling Causal Chain

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Hallo all,

I'm quit new to Smart PLS and I have two questions, that might be very easy to be answered by advanced users:

1) Is it possible/ permitted to model a causal Chain (I hope this is the accurate term) like this: exogenous variable with formative measurement model --> endogenous variable with reflective measurement model --> endogenous variable with formative measurement model?

Or do I have to use second order constructs?


2) In an other model I obtained outer weights > 1 (formative measurement model). Is this an error resulting from data import and how can I avoid this error? I used data standardisiation by default (mean = 0, var =1)


Thanks a lot in advance

Tobias
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