Beginner Resources: Essential materials for starting your journey with SmartPLS
Must Reads
Tutorials
- Selecting a SmartPLS Workspace Folder
- Create Your First Project
- Import a Data File (Raw Data or Covariance Matrix)
- Your First PLS Path Model
- Your First Regression Model
- Your First CB-SEM Model
Recommended Video Sources
PLS-SEM Academy
PLS-SEM Academy: Access comprehensive online videos, exercises, and case studies to master SmartPLS and earn a certificate.
James Gaskins YouTube Series
Watch over 30 videos dedicated to SmartPLS 4 by James Gaskin on YouTube.
Research with Fawad
Explore a collection of over 60 videos covering SmartPLS 4 on Fawad's YouTube channel.
Sample Projects
Discover our curated collection of downloadable sample projects, complete with data files. You can import and run these examples in SmartPLS.
Advanced User Resources
Literature
- Recommended Readings
- PLS-SEM Books
- PLS-SEM Special Issues
- PLS-SEM Review Articles
- PLS-SEM Methods Articles
- PLS-SEM Applications
- PLS-SEM Glossary
Algorithm Descriptions
Explore comprehensive descriptions of all algorithms and their Settings.
Special Knowledge
- Missing Values
- Composite, Common Factor, and Mixed Models
- How to Interpret Excess Kurtosis and Skewness
- Outer Weights Initialization and Pre-specification
- Thresholds for Different Result Colors in the SmartPLS Report
- PLS-SEM Compared with CB-SEM
- When to Use PLS-SEM (and When Not)
- Choosing Between PLS-SEM and CB-SEM
