Consistent partial least squares path modeling

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 297-316

  Dijkstra, Theo K ^a   Henseler, Jörg ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Consistent partial least squares; Monte Carlo simulation; PLS; SEM; Variance based structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DISTRIBUTED DATA; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PATH COEFFICIENTS; PLS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING TECHNIQUES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84938267390     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2015/39.2.02     Document Type: Review

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