השוואת שיטות

	מחקר חתך רוחב בסיוע סימולציה	מידול מבוסס-סוכנים (ABM)
תחום	תכנון מחקר	סימולציה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2000s–2010s (consolidated as a named hybrid approach)	1970s–1990s (formalized as a field)
הוגה השיטה	Emerged from epidemiology and systems science (no single originator; synthesises Pearce-type cross-sectional designs with simulation modelling traditions from Sterman and colleagues)	Thomas Schelling and Robert Axelrod (foundational contributions, 1970s–1990s)
סוג	Quantitative hybrid research design	Computational simulation method
מקור מכונן	Pearce, N. (2012). Classification of epidemiological study designs. International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(2), 393–397.	Axelrod, R. (1997). The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration. Princeton University Press.
כינויים	simulation-enhanced cross-sectional study, hybrid simulation cross-sectional design, cross-sectional simulation study, SACSR	ABM, Ajan Tabanlı Modelleme (ABM), multi-agent simulation, individual-based modeling
קשורות	3	5
תקציר	Simulation-assisted cross-sectional research combines the one-time, population-wide snapshot of a classic cross-sectional survey with computational simulation — such as agent-based modelling or Monte Carlo methods — to extend what can be inferred from data collected at a single point in time. Empirical cross-sectional data calibrate the simulation, which then explores counterfactuals, rare subgroups, or dynamic processes that the survey alone cannot reveal.	Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a computational simulation method, formalized through the work of Thomas Schelling and Robert Axelrod in the 1970s–1990s, that simulates the behavior of complex systems by specifying and running autonomous agents — individuals, firms, cells, or any bounded entity — whose local interactions with each other and with their environment collectively produce global, system-level patterns that could not be predicted from any single agent's rules alone.