Literature and Discussion...

Last nite a got a furious question.. how can i write the discussion if i got lack of literature???  Ermm.. i think a lot how to answer this... i never thinking to write without literature... but how come she came out with this question???

For me.. the researcher will face a lot of problems if they dont have enough literature for what they have been studied. Why??

1) They need the literature to write the hypothesis

2) The discussion part also based on your literature.

It means ..without literature.. you will face to major problem which are literature review and the discussion... more on that.. you want to do analysis for moderator and mediator..also need a literature.. so..without literature,,i dont think researchers could write a good research paper..

May be ,,becoz lack of understanding in term of literature.. that's why.. they claimed that..there is no literature..

why choose PLS instead of others???

PLS is getting its momentum lately compare the other software in PLS... but still not many of us aware of that... every time i talked about PLS... many of them are asking... Why they have to use PLS instead of others.....

This is the problem of our researcher... they do know what they want to know.. not about they suppose to know..even our supervisor also... I just to share how to write your support your reason why we used PLS over the others...

PLS makes fewer demands regarding sample size than other methods.

 PLS does not require normal-distributed input data.

 PLS can be applied to complex structural equation models with a large number of constructs.

 PLS is able to handle both reflective and formative constructs.

 PLS is better suited for theory development than for theory testing.

 PLS is especially useful for prediction

all of that are based on the articel wrote by Urbach & Ahleman, 2010.

Hopefully this info will clear your mind about the reason why adopted PLS over other softwares...

Happy writing.....

Paper in SEM....

I am in the workshop with prof ramayah now... and he shared a very interesting story... there are researchers are writing the papers in SEM but still not sure how to write it in a proper way... i just wanna to share what should be wrote in the paper if researchers are using SEM either in AMOS and PLS..

1st... must settle the MEASUREMENT MODEL.. which is consist of  CONVERGENT AND DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY.. after you confirmed that those factors are valid .. that you can start the STRUCTURAL MODEL TESTING  which is consist of hypothesis testing... if not.. you paper..is CONFIRM .. will be REJECTED..