Modelling of tuberculosis using structural equations

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadliest communicable diseases caused by a bacterium. Mostly developing and under-developed world bear the brunt of this disease. There are several factors which lead to causation of this disease. Moreover there are several complex inter linkages involved among these factors. In this paper structural equation modeling technique is used to know the interrelatedness among the factors. We have got four latent variables in which three are exogenous and one is endogenous latent variable. Structural equation models were estimated using the maximum likelihood technique.