SmartPLS is a software with graphical user interface for variance-based
structural equation modeling (SEM) using the
partial least squares (PLS) path modeling method.
Users can estimate models with their data by using basic PLS-SEM, weighted PLS-SEM (WPLS), consistent PLS-SEM (PLSc-SEM), and sumscores regression algorithms. The software computes standard results assessment criteria (e.g., for the reflective and formative measurement models and the structural model, including the HTMT criterion, bootstrap based significance testing, PLSpredict, and goodness of fit) and it supports additional statistical analyses (e.g., confirmatory tetrad analysis, higher-order models, importance-performance map analysis, latent class segmentation, mediation, moderation, measurement invariance assessment, multigroup analysis).
Since SmartPLS is programmed in
Java
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, it can be executed and run on different computer
operating systems
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also inc ...
such as
Windows
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and
Mac.
[Temme, D., Kreis, H., and Hildebrandt, L. (2010). A comparison of current PLS path modeling software: Features, ease-of-use, and performance, in: V. Esposito Vinzi, W. W. Chin, J. Henseler, and H. Wang (eds.)]
Handbook of partial least squares: Concepts, methods and applications
Springer: Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 737-756, p.745.
See also
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Estimation theory
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Partial least squares path modeling The partial least squares path modeling or partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-PM, PLS-SEM) is a method for structural equation modeling that allows estimation of complex cause-effect relationships in path models with latent var ...
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Partial least squares regression
Partial least squares regression (PLS regression) is a statistical method that bears some relation to principal components regression; instead of finding hyperplanes of maximum variance between the response and independent variables, it finds a li ...
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Principal component analysis
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular technique for analyzing large datasets containing a high number of dimensions/features per observation, increasing the interpretability of data while preserving the maximum amount of information, and ...
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Regression analysis
In statistical modeling, regression analysis is a set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships between a dependent variable (often called the 'outcome' or 'response' variable, or a 'label' in machine learning parlance) and one ...
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Regression validation
In statistics, regression validation is the process of deciding whether the numerical results quantifying hypothesized relationships between variables, obtained from regression analysis, are acceptable as descriptions of the data. The validation p ...
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WarpPLS
WarpPLS is a software with graphical user interface for variance-based and factor-based structural equation modeling, structural equation modeling (SEM) using the partial least squares path modeling, partial least squares and factor-based methods. ...
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