Investigating importance weighting of satisfaction scores from a formative model with partial least squares analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 351-363

  Wu, Chia Huei ^a   Chen, Lung Hung ^b   Tsai, Ying Mei ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN SPORT UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Importance; Partial least squares; Satisfaction; Weighting

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODELING; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 56749153608     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-008-9264-1     Document Type: Article

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