Methoden vergleichen

	Bayesian Agent-Based Modeling	Bayesian-Mikrosimulation
Fachgebiet	Simulation	Simulation
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2000s–2010s	1990s–2000s
Urheber	Sunnaker et al. / Grazzini & Richiardi (among key contributors)	Williamson, P.; Birkin, M.; Rees, P. H. and related health-economics researchers
Typ	Simulation calibration and inference framework	Individual-level probabilistic simulation with Bayesian updating
Wegweisende Quelle	Sunnaker, M., Busetto, A. G., Numminen, E., Corander, J., Foll, M., Dessimoz, C. (2013). Approximate Bayesian Computation. PLOS Computational Biology, 9(1), e1002803.	Williamson, P., Birkin, M., & Rees, P. H. (2000). The estimation of population microdata by using data from small area statistics and samples of anonymised records. Environment and Planning A, 30(5), 785-816.
Aliasnamen	Bayesian ABM, ABC-ABM, Bayesian Calibration of ABM, Bayesian Agent Simulation	Bayesian micro-simulation, BMS, Bayesian individual-level simulation, Probabilistic microsimulation
Verwandt	5	6
Zusammenfassung	Bayesian Agent-Based Modeling integrates Bayesian statistical inference with agent-based simulation to calibrate model parameters and quantify uncertainty. Rather than fixing agent rules and parameters by assumption, this approach treats unknown parameters as probability distributions and updates them systematically against observed data, yielding a full posterior over plausible model configurations.	Bayesian Microsimulation combines individual-level simulation of heterogeneous populations with Bayesian statistical inference. Each synthetic individual follows a probabilistic life path, while model parameters are governed by prior beliefs updated with observed data. This approach is widely used in health technology assessment, public policy costing, and demographic projection, where uncertainty in both model inputs and structural assumptions must be formally quantified and propagated through to output estimates.