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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:1199-1200
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Special Theme: Psychosocial

Commentary: Structural equation modelling in epidemiology: some problems and prospects

Geoff Der

MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK. E-mail: geoff@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk

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In their editorial on a life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology Ben-Shlomo and Kuh predict that ‘techniques ... currently under-utilized in conventional epidemiological analyses, for example structural equation modelling, path analysis, G-estimation and multi-level modelling, will become more widespread’.1 In this issue, Singh-Manoux and colleagues2 present a structural equation model which offers a simple and appealing solution to a type of problem that will be familiar to epidemiologists. The problem, in their example, is that the unconditional effect of education on health is positive, as expected, but when conditioned on, or adjusted for, occupational grade and income, the direction of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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