*! version 0.0.1 06Oct2017

Title

plssemplot -- Graph results from plssem (loadings plots, etc.)

Syntax

plssemplot [, options]

innermodel plot the structural (inner) model relationships

outermodel plot the measurement (outer) model relationships (not yet implemented)

stats(syntax##description_of_varlist:varname) produce the scatterplot matrix for the indicators of the selected
latent variables

scores produce the scatterplot matrix of the latent variables scores

crossloadings plot the model's cross loadings

loadings plot the model's outer loadings

outerweights plot the model's outer weights convergence path

Description

plssemplot graphs the results of the immediately preceding plssem command.

Options

plssemplot, crossloadings provides bar plots of the loadings of indicators for not only
their respective but all the other latent variables (i.e. cross loadings).

plssemplot, innermodel produces a graphical representation version of the structural (inner)
part of the PLS-SEM model estimated. This command requires the installation of
the nwcommands suite (click here to install).

plssemplot, loadings provides a bar plot of the loadings of indicators for their respective
latent variables.

plssemplot, outermodel produces a visualized version of the measurement (outer) part of
the PLS-SEM model estimated. This feature will be available soon.

plssemplot, outerweights produces a diagram showing the evolution over time of the
outer weights for the estimated model. This diagram is useful for assessing convergence of
the estimation algorithm.

plssemplot, scores provides the scatterplot matrix of the scores for the
latent variables defined in the PLS-SEM model.

plssemplot, stats(LV) provides the scatterplot matrix for the indicators in
the block defining the latent variable LV.

Examples

Setup

. sysuse workout2, clear

Model estimation

. plssem (Attractive > face sexy) (Appearance > body appear attract) (Muscle > muscle strength endur) (Weight > lweight calories cweight), structural(Appearance Attractive, Muscle Appearance, Weight Appearance)

Outer weights evolution

. plssemplot, outerweights

Scatterplot matrix for indicators related to a specific latent variable

. plssemplot, stats(Appearance)

Scatterplot matrix of latent variable scores

. plssemplot, scores

Plot of loadings and cross-loadings

. plssemplot, loadings

. plssemplot, crossloadings

Authors

Sergio Venturini

Department of Management

Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

sergio.venturini@unito.it

Mehmet Mehmetoglu

Department of Psychology

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

mehmetm@svt.ntnu.no