PLS-SEM Step by Step: free eBook
Measurement and structural models, mediation, moderation, IPMA, cIPMA and fsQCA with free software. Free when you join the newsletter: the download link is emailed to you as soon as you confirm.
Updated · By Bibin Xavier
What’s inside
- When to use PLS-SEM
- Preparing survey data
- Drawing the model in PLS-SEM Studio
- Running PLS and bootstrapping
- Assessing the measurement model
- Assessing the structural model
- Mediation analysis
- Moderation analysis
- Importance-performance map analysis (IPMA)
- Combined IPMA with necessary condition analysis (cIPMA)
- fsQCA on latent variable scores
- Reporting PLS-SEM results in APA style
Every chapter walks through the free tool step by step, explains how to read each result, gives the thresholds to apply with their sources, and ends with an APA reporting example. Links take you straight to the right tool on FreeStatisticalTools.com, so you can follow along with your own data.
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