Today I’m very happy and so excited to announce my new book PLS Path Modeling with R, freely available in pdf format at:
www.gastonsanchez.com/PLS_Path_Modeling_with_R.pdf
After working and writing insanely for a couple of months in the last quarter of 2012, I’ve finally achieved this personal milestone that means so much to me. What started as a routine maintaining task of my R package plspm, suddenly became a terrifying hydra that needed to be cut down. I found myself in the middle of a reengineering process which eventually made me compile a considerable amount of PLS-related material that I had accumulated over the last three years (or more).
One of the results of this endeavor is the book PLS Path Modeling with R that provides a hands-on introduction to Partial Least Squares Path Modeling using the R package plspm. By sharing my experience and knowledge on PLS Path Modeling, I hope to provide users of my R package an approachable and useful resource where they can find the necessary material to carry out their own PLS-PM analysis.
Enjoy and happy 2013!
The first 20 pages read flawlessly. I’ll continue after coffee
Good job!
I’ve only read the first seventeen pages of your PDF, but I was so impressed that I had to comment. Wow! It’s well-written, interesting, and provides a great context and motivation for the field of PLS Path Modeling.
I am something of an R packageaholic and like to collect interesting packages as an indirect way of learning a little more about the field and in case I need that tool someday. I also collect statistical/scientific PDFs (I have about 4,000 in Papers), and I have to say that your PDF would rank in my Top 10, and that leads me to believe that your package will also be near the top of my package rankings (limited only by how much latent variable stuff I actually do).
I feel like the little boy who just got a pocket knife for Christmas and I want to run around asking people if they need anything cut.
Already saved in gdoc. Thanks very much for sharing such a bible-like documentation on sem.
Gaston Sanchez’s PLSPM package in R is awesome ! I have been using it for my own research and teaching PLSPM in online workshops for years. This book is an invaluable addition and resource for anyone interested in learning, or using, PLS path modeling and related techniques. In fact, I teach a PLS path modeling workshop this week and will use the opportunity to promote Gaston’s work.
Dear Mr. Sanchez,
Like others above, I could not wait until after I finish the book to express my sincere thanks. Your book is such a pleasure to read. your explanations are so lucid and It makes the topic accessible. Thank you for your time and effort! I cant wait to dive back into the book and have some fun learning PLSPM.
Wow Gaston, a book! I have not read it yet, but I bet (from being acquainted with your cool presentations) that it is superbly presented.
Just started to have a look at PLS path modeling, and this looks like a great resource, especially together with the plspm package for R. Thanks a lot for making this available!
Just a question related to the code of plsreg1 {plspm}: why do you round in the code to four digits while scaling?
Th <- round(Th[, 1:h], 4)
Ph <- round(Ph[, 1:h], 4)
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We would usually round on presenting results, not on calculating, right?
That was an old bug. Now the function “plsreg1″ lives in the package plsdepot. In turn, plspm is exclusively dedicated to PLS Path Modeling
Thanks, Gaston. (Also for the mail). I missed that split/fork. I shall update today! =)
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