12. Moderation Analysis (Categorical Variable) in SmartPLS || Dr. Dhaval Maheta

[@chefberrypassionateresearcher]

Prof. Should we do measurement invariance testing before moderation anlaysis?

[@DhavalSaifaleeAaryash]

If moderator is categorical variable then yes

[@ParulManchanda]

Sir, in your video when you have applied categorical moderation in SmartPLS, we have not converted it into dummy variable. Is it because the moderating variable which we were using had only 2 categories and we use dummy variable in a situation when we have a categorical variable with more than 2 options. Please advice sir.

[@DhavalSaifaleeAaryash]

More than 2 categories cannot be compared in Smartpls.

[@prima510]

Hello Sir, had confusion, if one of the of the variable towards gender is significant, whereas other variables are not, in such cases how do we report?

[@DhavalSaifaleeAaryash]

Can u elaborate your question

[@aasafeer84]

Can we measure moderating variable with a simple median split in PLS-SEM? If yes, kindly guide.

[@DhavalSaifaleeAaryash]

Can u elaborate??

[@aasafeer84]

@@DhavalSaifaleeAaryash Thank you for your response. I have a continuous moderating variable, can we measure it by mediation split into two groups like a high and low group?

[@DhavalSaifaleeAaryash]

@@aasafeer84 yes you can do it but categorization of the variable you will have do it before importing data into smart pls

[@aasafeer84]

@@DhavalSaifaleeAaryash Thank you professor, it would be great if you kindly share any references or similar research articles so that I will try to manage accordingly. Thank you