1 Introduction
cbsem
(Schlittgen 2019) of the statistical software R (R Core Team 2019) contains all functions described in the further course of this article.2 The composite-based model
3 The covariance matrix of the composites
4 The covariance matrix of the models’ indicators
4.1 Computation
4.2 Example
5 Data generation
gscals
(i.e., for GSCA) and plspath
(i.e., for PLS) implementations have been used to obtain the model estimation results. Figure 3 shows the differences between the estimates and the path coefficients used for the simulation.