Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of the considerations and metrics required for partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis and result reporting. Preliminary considerations are summarized first, including reasons for choosing PLS-SEM, recommended sample size in selected contexts, distributional assumptions, use of secondary data, statistical power and the need for goodness-of-fit testing. Next, the metrics as well as the rules of thumb that should be applied to assess the PLS-SEM results are covered. Besides presenResearch goal: How does the expert utilization distribution of SMoES on VQA-CP v2 compare to top-k routing when evaluated under varying degrees of domain shift, measured by per-expert load entropy and accuracy drop relative to in-domain performance?Autonomous synthesis report generated by SOVEREIGN Research Kernel. Tribunal consensus score: 8.0/10.