Talk:SmartPLS

Citation overkill and article improvement
Although the AfD was closed as keep, this article remains in horrible state. I will try to use 3-4 "best" sources to reference claims in the article and delete most other "references" (few may end in "Further reading" section). I suspect many of these sources are only passing mentions of SmartPLS software or don´t mention it at all... It may take some time - this article has fairly low priority for me - but I feel burden of improving of the article is on the keep "voters" of the AfD. If other editor has access to the books I assessed in the last AfD, any help would be appreciated. Pavlor (talk) 10:37, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Undo the redirection of the SmartPLS page
Below, you find a new proposal for the SmartPLS page, which should meet all requirements Nojokes375 (talk) 14:24, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Per AfD discussion.  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ   20:25, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Revised text
Below you find a proposal of a revised text that considers the comments of the AFD discussion, which resulted in a "keep" decision. Nojokes375 (talk) 14:24, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * The SmartPLS page has not been created yet, or is still set to redirect to Christian M. Ringle. I'm closing the template here pending a redirect back to SmartPLS.  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ   06:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

SmartPLS is a software with graphical user interface for variance-based structural equation modeling (SEM) using the partial least squares (PLS) path modeling method. Besides estimating path models with latent variables using the PLS-SEM algorithm, the software computes standard results assessment criteria (e.g., for the reflective and formative measurement models, the structural model, and the goodness of fit) and it supports additional statistical analyses (e.g., confirmatory tetrad analysis, importance-performance map analysis, segmentation, multigroup). Since SmartPLS is programmed in Java, it can be executed and run on different computer operating systems such as Windows and Mac.

Additional References
These two books on PLS-SEM using SmartPLS

may be useful as additional references to sentence one and/or sentence two in the text. Nojokes375 (talk) 19:53, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Reply
Those claims are already referenced, per WP:TOOMANYREFS. 0.82em 21:39, 18 April 2018 (UTC)