Why you shouldn't use PLS: Four reasons to be uneasy about using PLS in analyzing path models

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4739-4748

  Goodhue, Dale L ^a   Thompson, Ron ^b   Lewis, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PATH MODELS; SAMPLE SIZES;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 84875504806     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.612     Document Type: Conference Paper

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