How to use SmartPLS4

SmartPLS4 is the new version of SmartPLS. The new and much advanced PLS-SEM tool has much more to offer. It is very user friendly and a great tool for both academics and practitioners to perform complex data analysis for their data.

Some highlights available in SmartPLS 4

• a fundamentally renewed and optimized GUI
• significantly improved performance
• data import from Excel or SPSS in addition to CSV files
• multiple moderation (e.g., three-way interactions)
• testing endogenity with Gaussian copulas
• Regression models, including many useful diagnostics and reports to fully perform the analyses
• PROCESS type analysis, including bootstrapping of conditional direct and indirect effects
• Necessary condition analysis (NCA) including significance testing
• Accounting for scale type of variables in most algorithms
• Standardized, unstandardized and mean-centered PLS-SEM analysis
• New datafiles can be created from calulation results directly (useful for higher-order models)
• Many new sample models are now included