I am a bit confused just recently went through smart pls 3, How to choose between AMOS and Smart PLS, there are also many other software available for SEM. Does software affects the results ?
SEM (including AMOS) and PLS are two approaches that have some important differences. Indeed, some people would argue that "SEM" is not the best label to use when describing PLS.
Some of those differences are discussed here:
Article Reflections on Partial Least Squares Path Modeling
The obtained results are different as the estimation procedures are not the same.
SPSS AMOS (or LISREL) estimates covariance-based (CB-SEM) model, variance based PLS SEM can be estimated using SmartPLS.
For more information read the article:
A comparative study of covariance and partial least squares based structural equation modelling in hospitality and tourism research
Faizan Ali, Woo Gon Kim, Jun Li, Cihan Cobanoglu
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 30 (1), 416-435, 2018
Dear Khalil,
In a one line answer, Yes, indirectly software's does effect the results ( because it depends which software using which method to estimate the equations).
You can decide as per your research objective that which techniques you should opt.
Here are few few discussions, you may go through it.
https://waset.org/publications/9997382/the-effect-of-nonnormality-on-cb-sem-and-pls-sem-path-estimates-
https://proceedings.utwente.nl/357/1/UsePLS_2015_submission_61.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_chose_SEM-AMOS_or_SEM-SmartPLS_for_data_analysis
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Under_what_conditions_should_a_researcher_use_variance-based_SEM_vs_covariance-based_SEM
https://www.smartpls.com/documentation/learn-pls-sem-and-smartpls/choosing-between-pls-sem-and-cb-sem
https://www.smartpls.com/documentation/learn-pls-sem-and-smartpls/pls-sem-compared-with-cbsem
Best Regards,
Abhay
Thank you Abhay Pratap Singh for your detailed response, let me digest this.
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