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| Author | Topic: Statistic: PLS Breakout Session |
| Oran Alston |
posted 4/17/06 5:57 PM
Does anyone feel it would be useful to have a statistics breakout session at the respective conferences (e.g. IS, Accounting etc...). I think a session on PLS would be helpful for the IS conference. Have we done this in recent years? |
| erastus |
posted 4/17/06 10:29 PM
I am a doctoral student of color at MSU and I would like to join the PHD Project.(Information systems).Would you kindly let me know who I need to contact. Thank you.You can respond through my email address (vb267@yahoo.com) |
| pcarter |
posted 4/18/06 8:56 PM
Some type of method workshops would be useful. Especially if expert folks were brought in to both discuss actual method technique as well as what "trends" are on the horizon. It is difficult to keep up with, and newer methods are being introduced to the IS literature to support increasingly complex research questions/phenomena. Plus, I've found that doctoral students are sometimes asked to incorporate methods that their faculty are not really familiar with. I spent quite a bit of time at a recent conference discussing qualitative research strategies with an ISDSA student in that situation To the extent that PhD Project/ISDSA students and alums exchanged their knowledge and ideas on common research interests, including methods, we'd probably all benefit. p.s. I've heard thru the grapevine that there may soon be a "backlash" to PLS with one or two papers currently under review debunking PLS research in the IS domain. But, I haven't talked to any actual authors of these papers, so I guess that's just rumor for now. |
| Likoebe |
posted 4/18/06 11:11 PM
Re: 1. I don’t recall us having had a specific session blocked out for stats-related issues. However, I do recall Wynne Chin doing an interesting tutorial as part of his presentation on IS and Culture research last year. Re: 2. It would be great to have a breakout session of sorts for PLS (or other statistical approaches that don’t get much play in our doctoral programs). It’s likely that not everyone would be interested in such a session, so it could potentially be broken out into qualitative and quantitative methods. Of course it would also be good to have subject matter experts as part of the discussion. I know that everything I learned about PLS I had to figure out on my own or by talking to others who were more experienced with using it. Re: 3. It’s definitely a challenge to keep up with these new methods. And of course new methods are coming up all the time. For example, my research is becoming increasing multi-level all the time so I had to learn how to do random coefficient modeling as a statistical analysis technique. There aren’t many formal classes on RCM (or its variants) that can be taken, so I had to gather all the papers and books on it that I could find, and attend a pretty expensive workshop to figure out how to do it. All-in-all, it’s pretty difficult to keep up with new methods unless you are really motivated to do so. |
| Adriane Randolph |
posted 5/30/06 3:20 PM
As Likoebe mentioned, we did have a PLS session last year. During the last few conferences, we have tried to incorporate a specific methods session into the agenda. For this year, our agenda is already set and includes a session on Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) but not stats-specific. Please raise this idea during our business meeting at the conference for further discussion by the body. |
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