You Write, but Others Read: Common Methodological Misunderstandings in PLS and Related Methods

Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-64

  Marcoulides, George A ^a   Chin, Wynne W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Covariance structure analysis; Equivalent models; Formative indicators; Latent class; Mixture analysis; Mode A; Mode B; Model identification; Multiple regression; Path analysis; Path models; Power; Reflective indicators; Scale invariance; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT MODEL; LATENT CLASS; MIXTURE ANALYSIS; MODE A; MODEL IDENTIFICATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PATH ANALYSIS; PATH MODELS; POWER; SCALE INVARIANCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

EID: 84886038301     PISSN: 21941009     EISSN: 21941017     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8283-3_2     Document Type: Article

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