When Imprecise Statistical Statements Become Problematic: A Response to Goodhue, Lewis, and Thompson

摘要

We wish to thank the editors of MISQ for inviting this commentary in response to the Issues and Opinions piece by Goodhue, Lewis, and Thompson (hereinafter GLT). We must admit we were somewhat surprised when we received a lengthy Issues and Opinions paper that responded to our slightly over four page (published) Foreword to the 2009 MIS Quarterly Special Issue on PLS (Marcoulides et al. 2009). Our short Foreword was merely designed to provide an overview of the special issue and alert the MISQ audience to the importance of making correct comparisons between PLS and other statistical modeling techniques.