Version 3.3.9, released 2022-03-28
- Fixed: Issues with trial.
Version 3.3.8, released 2022-03-27
- Fixed: Minor stability issues.
- Improved: Upgraded internal libraries.
Version 3.3.7, released 2022-01-23
- Improved: Updated translation files.
- Improved: Upgraded internal libraries.
Version 3.3.6, released 2022-01-19
- Improved: Improved performance of several algorithms.
- Improved: Upgraded internal libraries.
Version 3.3.5, released 2021-12-20
- Fixed: Deadlocks occurred on some computers during save operations.
Version 3.3.4, released 2021-12-16
- Fixed: Log4J Vulnerability fix. Log4J updated to a patched version (2.16.0)
- Improved: Upgraded internal libraries.
Version 3.3.3, released 2021-01-11
- Improved: Upgraded internal libraries.
- Improved: GUI adjustments, for a better display under Windows 10 and MacOSX Big Sur.
- Improved: Indicators that contain non-numeric values are marked with an exclamation mark + tooltip in the datafile editor.
- Fixed: Display errors and refresh problems under MacOSX Big Sure.
- Fixed: Performance issue with PLSC algorithm.
- Fixed: Installation problem in the Persian language area.
Version 3.3.2, released 2020-04-21
- Improved: Upgraded internal libraries.
Version 3.3.1, released 2020-04-21
- Improved: Upgraded internal libraries.
Version 3.3.0, released 2020-04-11
- Improved: Updated embedded Java version
- Improved: Mac OS installer includes Java
Version 3.2.9, released 2020-01-08
- Feature: Descriptive statistics for latent variable scores, residuals, and prediction errors
- Feature: Preferences option to hide leading zeros in the results output
- Feature: Implementation of consistent PLS-MGA and permutation
- Localization: Translation to Urdu
- Localization: Update of the existing language versions
- Improved: Added specific indirect effects to the PLS-MGA and permutation results
- Improved: PLS-MGA two-tailed p-values
- Improved: Added intercepts for unstandardized coefficients IPMA results
- Improved: Software speed and performance
- Improved: Blindfolding missing data treatment (i.e., it does not support pairwise deletion anymore)
- Improved: Added construct level results (e.g., R²) in the modeling window of bootstrapping
- Improved: Descriptive statistics for indicator data (e.g., group-specific outcomes)
- Improved: Excel export of results
- Fixed: PLSpredict LV predictions
- Fixed: Changing the sort order in the result tables (e.g., by variable name)
- Fixed: Pairwise deletion to treat missing values
- Fixed: Highlighting of p-values for PLS-MGA results
Version 3.2.8, released 2018-11-22
- Feature: Implementation of predictive model selection criteria for PLS and PLSc
- Feature: New unique case identifier (i.e., a fixed number for each observation in the dataset, which is useful, for example, when using the casewise deletion option, multigroup or segmentation analyses)
- Improved: Inclusion of all specific indirect effects for the mediator analysis
- Improved: Color highlighting of significant p-values in bootstrapping, permutation, and multigroup analysis (MGA)
- Improved: Results presentation for bootstrapped fit indices
- Improved: Software activation procedure
- Localization: Translation to Korean (100%)
- Localization: Translation to Malay (100%)
- Localization: Translation to Polish (>20%)
- Localization: Translation to Rumanian (>50%)
- Localization: Correction of incompletions and little issues in the different language translations
- Fixed: Residual correlation instead of covariance for PLSc
- Fixed: Bootstrapping sometimes stopped when using “complete bootstrapping” with repeated indicators due to problems in the fit calculation for these models
- Removed: Lohmöller’s initial weighting scheme (complexity reduction)
- Removed: Bootstrap sign change options (i.e., individual sign changes, construct level sign changes; complexity reduction)
- Removed: Double bootstrapping (increased bootstrapping performance; complexity reduction)
- Removed: d_g1 version of the exact fit measures (complexity reduction)
Version 3.2.7, released 2017-09-18
- Feature: Linear model (LM) prediction results as naïve benchmark for PLS Predict outcomes
- Feature: Mean value as naïve benchmark for Q² value-based assessment of PLS Predict results
- Feature: Specific indirect effects added to the results (e.g., useful for mediation analyses)
- Feature: Group-specific FIMIX-PLS analysis results
- Feature: Reliability pre-specification of composites
- Localization: Translation to Arabic (<50%)
- Localization: Translation to Indonesian (100%)
- Improved: Additional multigroup analysis (MGA) results (e.g., Rho_A, f², etc.)
- Improved: Additional permutation test results (e.g., AVE, Cronbach-Alpha, f², etc.)
- Improved: Specific indirect effects for the importance-performance map analysis (IPMA)
- Improved: Simple slope plots added to consistent PLS (PLSc) results
- Improved: Cross-loadings added to consistent PLS (PLSc) results
- Improved: Rho_A results added to the graphical presentation of the PLS path model
- Improved: Changed order of VIF results in the report (outer model comes first, now)
- Improved: Latent variables’ full correlation matrix in reports (instead of lower triangular)
- Improved: Basic bootstrapping as default option (instead of complete bootstrapping)
- Fixed: Studentized confidence interval’s bias correction
- Fixed: p-value computation for the permutation test
- Fixed: Correlation matrix in the data preview with missing values
- Fixed: Missing complete bootstrapping results of higher-order constructs (repeated indicators)
- Fixed: Missing complete bootstrapping results of multigroup analysis (MGA) computations
- Fixed: Missing results when using the complete option and double bootstrapping routines
- Fixed: Symbol encoding problem in the PLS algorithm with French translation
Version 3.2.6, released 2016-11-13
- Improved: : Inclusion of results for Cronbach's alpha
Version 3.2.5, released 2016-11-06
- Feature: New PLS Predict Algorithm
- Localization: Translation to Italian (100%)
- Localization: Translation to Portuguese (100%)
- Localization: Translation to French (50%)
- Localization: Translation to Chinese (50%)
- Localization: Translation to Persian (75%)
- Improved: : Higher speed of the PLS algorithm
- Improved: : Higher speed of Bootstrapping and other PLS modules
- Fixed: The "complete bootstrapping" option
- Fixed: Permutation test p-value computation
- Fixed: Estimated empirical correlation matrix computation
Version 3.2.4, released 2016-05-02
- Localization: Translation to German
- Localization: Translation to Spanish
- Localization: Translation to Japanese
- Feature: Composite reliability roh_A results
- Feature: Composite reliability roh_A bootstrap results
- Feature: PLS-POS: Option to use the FIMIX-PLS segmentation result as starting partition
- Feature: PLS-POS: Weighted average R² as goal criterion and as additional results
- Feature: Modeling Window: Option to display f² and HTMT results
- Feature: Modeling Window: Option to show blindfolding Q² in the latent variables
- Feature: Project Explorer: Option to automatically import sample projects
- Feature: New model fit measures: RMSE Theta
- Feature: New model fit measures: NFI
- Feature: New model fit measures: Model´s Chi² result
- Feature: New model fit measures: d_ULS and d_G exact tests of model fit
- Feature: Bootstrap results of new fit measures
- Feature: Refurbished the HTML results report
- Improved: Project Explorer offers shortcuts for recently opened workspaces
- Improved: Construct reliability overview table in the results report
- Improved: SRMR results for mixed models with composites and common factors
- Improved: Excel results report (look & feel and memory consumption)
- Improved: Internal results report (e.g., colors, display of total effects, switch between group-specific results)
- Improved: IPMA: Additional importance-performance map for standardized total effects
- Improved: FIMIX-PLS: Settings, outputs and reports
- Improved: Option to rename variables
- Improved: Indicator overview view: Variable number included
- Improved: Shortcuts on certain actions for the Windows OS
- Improved: Reworked licensing dialog
- Improved: Software activation process
- Improved: Bootstrapping Performance
- Fixed: Rendering problems on high resolution displays with a custom DPI setup greater than 100% on Windows
- Fixed: MICOM: Results report for single-item constructs
- Fixed: Undo action for 'Apply Theme'
- Fixed: Use of alignment and match actions does no longr clear displayed calculation results
- Fixed: Problems with empirical weights in permutation algorithm
- Fixed: Documentation could not be displayed on computers with curious browser setups.
Version 3.2.3, released 2015-10-06
- Improved: Rendering of tables. Increased line height for better readability.
- Fixed: Improved: backward compatibility for existing workspaces and data.
- Fixed: A link in the new Excel export dialog.
Version 3.2.2, released 2015-10-01
- Feature: NEW ALGORITHM: Permutation test for multi-group analysis
- Feature: MICOM test for measurement invariance (included in the permutation test results)
- Feature: Median, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis and correlations for indicators (shown in data and indicator views)
- Feature: Copy & paste options in the dataview allow for an easy export of descriptive statistics and raw data
- Feature: Additional operators ("does not equal", "or") for a more flexible definition of data groups
- Feature: Additional chart for HTMT in the PLS report with threshold visualization
- Feature: Show p- and t-values in combination with path coefficients or outer weights as results in the path model
- Feature: Additional option to hide specific results in the path model (e.g., outer model)
- Feature: Additional results for PLS-POS (Weighted R², total and indirect effects)
- Feature: Define outer model weighting options (Mode A, Mode B, Equal Weights/Sumscores, Pre-Defined Weights)
- Improved: Calculation speed (all algorithms 2 times faster now)
- Improved: FIMIX-PLS: segments are numbered in descending order of the segment size (segment 1 always is the largest)
- Improved: FIMIX-PLS: reduced list of quality criteria (focus on relevant criteria only)
- Improved: PLS-MGA reports all results for interaction & quadratic effects, now
- Improved: Missing value identification: Empty cells are recognized as missing values
- Improved: Columns with text in the dataset can be used as grouping variable
- Improved: Excel Export: new options let you customize your Excel output
- Improved: Excel Export: memory usage
- Improved: Excel Export: changed file extension to *.xlsx
- Improved: Tooltips for large column names in the results view
- Improved: Image-Export: Remove focus when exporting models as image
- Improved: Error messages and highlighting for invalid path models
- Improved: "All calculations are finished" message appears when calculation is complete
- Fixed: SRMR calculation of factor models with interaction and/or quadratic terms
- Fixed: HTMT bootstrap error in path models with purely formative indicators
- Fixed: Change of custom color themes does no longer modify the default theme
- Fixed: Inconsistencies of labels in different algorithms
- Fixed: Calculation of inner model residuals
- Fixed: PLS-MGA confidence intervals
- Fixed: "Check for Updates" option has been enabled
- Fixed: Image export no longer omits file extensions (png, svg) under Windows 8
Version 3.2.1, released 2015-05-05
- Feature: Style of path model can now be customized using colors, borders and font sizes (Professional version only).
- Feature: New toolbar for easier access to modeling and styling options.
- Feature: New 'Duplicate' action for easier cloning of project files.
- Feature: New sample model "European Customer Satisfaction Index (ECSI)".
- Feature: New 'Install Sample Models' action for supplementary re-installation of the sample models.
- Feature: Algorithm settings are now displayed in all reports.
- Feature: An alternative label can be maintained for all variables that make use of line breaks.
- Feature: TAB key can be used to jump between latent variables of a model.
- Feature: Bootstrapping results of the SRMR criterion.
- Feature: Residual correlation results.
- Feature: New PLSc quality criterion Rho_A.
- Feature: Export a path model to a vector based graphic format (.svg).
- Improved: Importance-performance map: chart legend entries are sorted.
- Improved: Removed yellow message box stating that the 'Student Version' is used.
- Improved: Settings of existing moderating and quadratic effects may be changed (double click the variable).
- Improved: Introduced tooltip for moderating and quadratic effects that shows all selected settings.
- Improved: Changed default look and feel of moderating and quadratic effects and simplified the default name of new effects.
- Improved: Default position of interaction effects is now shifted when multiple effects are create for the same latent variable.
- Improved: Excel reports now support more than 256 columns.
- Improved: Improved: startup time of algorithms when many data groups were defined but not used.
- Improved: Clean-up of menu structures (main menu and context menus) and toolbars.
- Improved: Complete bootstrapping is now default instead of basic bootstrapping.
- Improved: Row colors in result tables keep alternating correctly, even if the table is sorted by a certain column.
- Improved: Connections to the one and only indicator of a single item are rendered without arrow.
- Improved: Header of confidence interval results.
- Improved: Importance-performance map analysis (IPMA) results representation.
- Fixed: Blue links could not be clicked on Mac OSX 10.10.3 (Yosemite).
- Fixed: Rendering error after import of a CSV file that had an error in the first line (e.g. columns with the same name).
- Fixed: HTMT results computation and display issues.
- Fixed: PLSc computation problems (interaction terms and "connect all option".
- Fixed: Running the double bootstrapping routine on multiple processors
- Fixed: Duplicate naming issue in case of renaming an object.
- Fixed: PLSc results output issues (e.g., R^2 values) with "connect all option".
- Fixed: Problems with less than 10 Bootstrapping resamples.
- Fixed: Loadings of formative and single item constructs in PLSc.
Version 3.2.0, released 2015-01-20
- Feature: Graphical representation of bootstrap results (i.e. histograms of paths)
- Feature: Simple slope interaction plots (moderation)
- Improved: Speed of bootstrap routine.
- Improved: Separate installation of JRE no longer necessary on Windows machines.
- Improved: Calculation for the whole data set may now be skipped, when data groups are analyzed.
- Improved: Variables available for group generation are sorted alphabetically.
- Improved: Moving or hiding variables after a calculation does no longer clear the calculation results.
- Improved: Newly imported data files will be activated by default.
- Improved: If a model file is copied, the new model will be opened immediately.
- Improved: Calculation results view does no longer scroll to top if results are switched.
- Improved: Prefix for generated groups is now optional.
- Fixed: Unexpected sign changes of indirect and total effects.
- Fixed: Interaction effect computation problems (moderation).
- Fixed: Computation of the unstandardized latent variable scores (IPMA).
Version 3.1.9, released 2015-01-20
- Fixed: Licensing server connection problems.
- Improved: Minor typo corrections.
Version 3.1.8, released 2015-01-18
- Improved: Added Java version check to the licensing dialog.
Version 3.1.7, released 2015-01-02
- Feature: Support for weighting vector.
- Improved: Introduced student version without registration.
- Improved: Introduced 30day trial.
- Improved: Introduced licensing server support.
- Improved: Change file extension for R export to '.rData'.
- Fixed: Issues with R² in interaction effect models.
- Fixed: Some report table rows were hidden on Mac OSX Yosemite.
Version 3.1.6, released 2014-11-01
- Feature: Automatic Update (still experimental).
- Feature: Validation errors of data files are now displayed.
- Improved: Calculation results explorer now adapts better to the available screen size.
- Improved: Easier copy & paste of files in the project explorer.
- Fixed: Issues with studentized confidence intervals in bootstrapping procedure.
- Fixed: Calculation of indirect and total effects.
- Fixed: Bootstrapping procedure for model consisting of formative models only.
- Fixed: Bootstrapping procedure for model consisting of single indicator models only.
Version 3.1.5, released 2014-09-03
- Fixed: The 'Snap to Grid' function runs, now.
- Fixed: Issues with the HTMT criteria.
Version 3.1.4, released 2014-09-01
- Improved: Reworked licensing dialog.
- Improved: Minor label changes in data file editor.
- Improved: Cells in Excel export are formatted as 'numeric' and may now be used for further calculations without reformatting.
- Fixed: Problems when sorting tables in reports.
- Fixed: A bug that occurred on CSV export of a single table which had been sorted by path relations.
- Fixed: An errors that occurred on shutdown.
- Fixed: Problems with “Pairwise Deletion” method to treat missing values.
- Fixed: Issues with the Blindfolding procedure.
- Fixed: A bug that damaged model files on certain Windows machines.
Version 3.1.3, released 2014-07-26
- Feature: You can now decide what should happen after a calculation (e.g. open the full report)
- Feature: Export a full report to R.
- Feature: Export single matrix to R.
- Improved: The result navigation now resides in its own view.
- Fixed: A "widget is disposed" exception occured during shutdown on some computers.
- Fixed: Contents of the "About" dialog where cropped on some Windows computers.
- Fixed: About-Dialog now contains a link to the Terms and Conditions.
- Fixed: The initial licensing dialog is now resizable.
- Fixed: The amount of RAM allocated to the application on startup was to high for some computers.
- Fixed: Although not needed, POS algorithm stopped with error when no data groups where defined a priori.
- Fixed: Sorting indicators by the number of missing values in the indicator view caused an error.
- Fixed: After setup of a new missing value for the data file, the window was not refreshed properly.
- Fixed: Improved: caption for calculation runs.