Part I Theoretical Research and Methodology AN OVERVIEW OF PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES Fred L. Bookstein DISCUSSION OF DIFFERENT PLS ESTIMATION APPROACHES FOR THE FUNCTIONAL LOGIT MODEL Ana M. Aguilera Manuel Escabias KERNEL PLS PATH MODELLING Arthur Tenenhaus PLS REGRESSION WITH FUNCTIONAL PREDICTOR AND MISSING DATA Cristian Preda Gilbert Saporta M.H. Ben Hadj Mbarek ROLE AND TREATMENT OF CATEGORICAL VARIABLES IN PLS PATH MODELS FOR COMPOSITE INDICATORS Laura Trinchera Giorgio Russolillo AN APPROACH FOR PLS REGRESSION MODELING OF FUNCTIONAL DATA Shengshuai Wang Jie Wang Huiwen Wang Gilbert Saporta PLS MULTINOMIAL LOGIT IN SATISFACTION SURVEYS Alain Mar&hal Paolo Righetti Simon Pioche Hajer Souaifi Riccardo Troso Jean-Pierre Bidon TWO-STEP PROCEDURE FOR PLS PATH MODELING WITH INTERACTION EFFECTS BETWEEN FORMATIVE CONSTRUCTS AND TIME-DEPENDENT VARIABLES Alba Martfnez-Ruiz Tomas Aluja-Banet A COMPARISON OF PLS-BASED AND OTHER DIMENSION REDUCTION METHODS FOR TUMOUR CLASSIFICATION USING MICROARRAY DATA Cameron Hurst Janet Chaseling Michael Steele VARIABLE SELECTION IN PLSR BASED ON GRAM-SCHMIDT PROCESS Chen Meiling A SIMULATION STUDY OF PATHMOX WITH NON-NORMAL DATA Gast6n Sanchez Tomas Aluja PLS ALGORITHMS FOR NON-METRIC DATA Giorgio Russolillo Laura Trinchera THE EFFICIENCY OF THE CENTROID METHOD COMPARED TO A SIMPLE AVERAGE Jacob Eskildsen Kai Kristensen Rikke Nielsen PLS-LOGISTIC REGRESSION ON FUNCTIONAL DATA Jie Wang Shengshuai Wang Kefei Huang Ying Li AN INTEGRATED PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE-MONTE CARLO MODEL FOR RISK ASSESSMENT OF PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT Kuang Jianchao Wang Zhong Zeng Jianyi Luo Xin Zhao Lu ……