Get to Know PLS-SEM and SmartPLS

Getting Started

• Get to know PLS-SEM in a minute or two!
• The PLS-SEM Book
• Book on Advanced Issues in PLS-SEM
• Glossary
• Online Courses: Join the PLS-SEM Academy
• E-Book on PLS-SEM

Recent Developments

• Cross-validated Predictive Ability Test (CVPAT)
• PLSpredict
• Prediction-oriented Model Comparison

Literature

• Recommended Readings
• PLS-SEM Books
• PLS-SEM Special Issues
• PLS-SEM Review Articles
• PLS-SEM Methods Articles
• PLS-SEM Applications

Videos

• Importing data in SmartPLS 3 and getting started
• Missing data marker in SPSS and SmartPLS 3
• How to create and estimate a SmartPLS model
• HTMT - A New Criterion to Assess Discriminant Validity
• HTMT - Assessing Discriminant Validity in SmartPLS 3
• IPMA - Importance-Performance Map Analysis
• IPMA - Running the Importance-Performance Map Analysis in SmartPLS 3
• IPMA - Revisited
• PLS-MGA - PLS Multi-Group Analysis
• PLS-MGA - Using the PLS Multi-Group Analysis in SmartPLS 3
• Videos for CHINA
• Videos for TAIWAN

Choosing PLS-SEM

• When to Use PLS-SEM (and When Not)
• PLS-SEM Compared with CB-SEM
• Choosing Between PLS-SEM and CB-SEM

SmartPLS

SmartPLS Algorithms & Techniques

• Blindfolding
• Bootstrapping
• Confirmatory Composite Analysis (CCA)
• Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis in PLS (CTA-PLS)
• Consistent Bootstrapping
• Consistent PLS
• Discriminant Validity Assessment and Heterotrait-monotrait Ratio of Correlations (HTMT)
• Goodness of Fit (GoF)
• Finite Mixture Partial Least Squares (FIMIX-PLS)
• Higher-order Models
• Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA)
• Permutation
• Mediation
• Measurement Invariance Assessment (MICOM)
• Model Fit
• Moderation
• Multigroup Analysis (MGA)
• Prediction-oriented Segmentation (POS)
• Nonlinear
• PLS Algorithm
• PLS Predict
• PLS and Bootstrapping Problems
• Prediction-oriented model selection
• Weighted PLS Algorithm (WPLS)

Other SmartPLS Functionalities

• Activate SmartPLS
• Assign More Computer Memory to SmartPLS
• Change Colors and Customize Styles
• Choose Your Language
• Composite, Common Factor and Mixed Models
• Copy & Paste vs. Duplicate
• Data Import
• Export Your SmartPLS Project
• How to Interpret Excess Kurtosis and Skewness
• Import Project from a Folder
• Import Project from Backup File
• License Days Remaining
• Missing Values
• Outer Weights Initialization and Pre-specification
• Transfer SmartPLS Projects to Another Computer
• Workspace

SmartPLS Project Examples

• Corporate Reputation Model
• European Customer Satisfaction Index (ECSI)
• Organizational Identification Project
• Technology Acceptance Model Project
• Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Project