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2023

Structural equation modeling

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Assessing Univariate And Multivariate Normality In Pls-Sem, Kathy Qing Ma, Weiyong Zhang Jan 2023

Assessing Univariate And Multivariate Normality In Pls-Sem, Kathy Qing Ma, Weiyong Zhang

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) has gained popularity among researchers in part due to its relaxed requirement for multivariate normality. One important step in performing structural equation modeling (SEM) is to test the normality assumption. In this paper, we illustrate how to assess univariate and multivariate normality in PLS-SEM using WarpPLS.