Hello everyone.
I have data with three outcomes (two is binary and one is continous with poisson distribution) and around 10 independent variables. My objective is search for factors predicting one main outcome and two secondary outcomes. I came across structural equation modeling (SEM) and it has very interesting concept. I want to ask that putting all variable to fit correlation in one SEM (with all three outcomes) equation is more suitable than separately putting variables in each regression equation (totally three equations)? (Actually, I have tried to analyze accordingly and found that some significant variables in logistic/ linear regression turned to non-significant in SEM.) I want to ask your opinion that technically and scientifically using only one model should be more suitable than three models especially in single study?
Thank you.