Current release: 0.1.1

Stata version required: at least 15.1

Stata package for simulating data in accordance with a given Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM). The package has been developed in line with the cSEM.DGP R package (https://m-e-rademaker.github.io/cSEM.DGP), while it adds the simulation of data using copulas.

The companion package for estimating PLS-SEM models is available at the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/sergioventurini/plssem.

Installation notes

To install plssemsim directly from GitHub you need to use the github Stata package. You can install the latest version of the github package by executing the following code in your Stata session:

net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")

Then, you can install the plssemsim package using the following code in Stata:

github install sergioventurini/plssemsim

Authors

Sergio Venturini, Department of Economic and Social Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Cremona, Italy

E-mail: sergio.venturini@unicatt.it

Bugs

In case you find any bug, please send us an e-mail or open an issue on GitHub.

Citation

You can cite the plssemsim package as:

Mehmetoglu, M., Venturini, S. (2021). Structural Equation Modelling with Partial Least Squares Using Stata and R. CRC Press

Venturini, S., Mehmetoglu, M. (2019). plssemsim: A Stata Package for Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Squares. Journal of Statistical Software, 88(8)1-35

Paper webpage: https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v088i08

GitHub repository: https://github.com/sergioventurini/plssemsim

Copyright

This software is distributed under the GPL-3 license (see LICENSE file).