# calculateAVE

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##### Internal: AVE

Calculate the average variance extracted (AVE) as proposed by Fornell1981;textualcSEM. For details see the cSEM website

Keywords
internal
##### Usage
calculateAVE(
.object              = NULL,
.only_common_factors = TRUE
)
##### Arguments
.object

An R object of class cSEMResults resulting from a call to csem().

.only_common_factors

Logical. Should only concepts modeled as common factors be included when calculating one of the following quality critera: AVE, the Fornell-Larcker criterion, HTMT, and all reliability estimates. Defaults to TRUE.

##### Details

The AVE is inherently tied to the common factor model. It is therefore unclear how to meaningfully interpret AVE results in the context of a composite model. It is possible to report the AVE for composites by setting .only_common_factors = FALSE, however, result should be interpreted with caution as they may not have a conceptual meaning.

The function is only applicable to objects inheriting class cSEMResults_default. For objects of class cSEMResults_multi and cSEMResults_2ndorder use assess().

##### Value

A named vector of numeric values of length equal to the number of constructs in the model.

##### References

assess(), cSEMResults