Rethinking Partial Least Squares Path Modeling: In Praise of Simple Methods

Long Range Planning

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 341-358

  Rigdon, Edward E ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE METHOD; CORRELATION WEIGHT; ESTIMATE MODEL; FACTOR MODEL; MODEL PARAMETERS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); REGRESSION WEIGHTS; SIMPLE METHOD;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; FINANCE;

FORECASTING;

LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84870393191     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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