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      • Hide or show indicators
      • Reflective or formative measurement
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Reflective or formative measurement

Switch a construct between reflective and formative measurement.

How to

  1. 1Select the construct. Its tools appear in the canvas toolbar below Delete.
  2. 2Click Formative measurement (arrows from items to construct). PLS-SEM then estimates it with Mode B weights.
  3. 3Click Reflective measurement (arrows from construct to items) to switch back.

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