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		Complex Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling //
		Estimate complex Structural Equation Models (SEMs) by fitting
		Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM)
		and Partial Least Squares consistent Structural Equation
		Modeling (PLSc-SEM) specifications that handle categorical
		data, non-linear relations, and multilevel structures. The
		implementation follows Lohmller (1989) for the classic PLS-SEM
		algorithm, Dijkstra and Henseler (2015) for consistent PLSc-
		SEM, Dijkstra et al., (2014) for nonlinear PLSc-SEM, and
		Schuberth, Henseler, Dijkstra (2018) for ordinal PLS-SEM and
		PLSc-SEM. Additional extensions are under development. The MC-
		OrdPLSc algorithm, used to handle ordinal interaction models is
		detailed in Slupphaug et al., (2026). References: Lohmller,
		J.-B. (1989, ISBN:9783790803002). "Latent Variable Path
		Modeling with Partial Least Squares." Dijkstra, T. K.,
		Henseler, J. (2015). doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2015.06.002.
		"Consistent partial least squares path modeling." Dijkstra, T.
		K.,  Schermelleh-Engel, K. (2014).
		doi:10.1016/j.csda.2014.07.008. "Consistent partial least
		squares for nonlinear structural equation models." Schuberth,
		F., Henseler, J.,  Dijkstra, T. K. (2018).
		doi:10.1007/s11135-018-0767-9. "Partial least squares path
		modeling using ordinal categorical indicators." Slupphaug, K.
		Mehmetoglu, M.  Mittner, M. (2026).
		doi:10.31234/osf.io/fwzj6_v1. "Consistent Estimates from Biased
		Estimators: Monte-Carlo Consistent Partial Least Squares for
		Latent Interaction Models with Ordinal Indicators."
	</longdescription>
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