On Components, Latent Variables, PLS and Simple Methods: Reactions to Rigdon's Rethinking of PLS

Long Range Planning

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 138-145

  Bentler, Peter M ^a   Huang, Wenjing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; FINANCE;

LATENT VARIABLE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); SIMPLE METHOD;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION;

EID: 84901673561     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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