Differential effects of omitting formative indicators: A comparison of techniques

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 401-419

  Aguirre Urreta, Miguel I ^a   Marakas, George M ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formative specification; Latent variables; Omitted variable bias; Partial least squares; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; ESTIMATION BIAS; LATENT VARIABLE; OMITTED VARIABLE BIAS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); RESEARCH MODELS; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPECIFICATIONS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84886473472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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