Methoden vergelijken

	Ruimtelijke Monte Carlo-simulatie	Ruimtelijke Bayesiaanse Inferentie
Vakgebied	Bayesiaanse statistiek	Bayesiaanse statistiek
Familie	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
Jaar van ontstaan	1970s–1980s	1991
Grondlegger	B. D. Ripley and the spatial statistics tradition	Besag, York & Mollie (CAR prior, 1991); Gelfand & colleagues (Bayesian geostatistics, 1990s)
Type	computational simulation	Bayesian hierarchical spatial model
Oorspronkelijke bron	Ripley, B. D. (1987). Stochastic Simulation. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0471818847	Banerjee, S., Carlin, B. P. & Gelfand, A. E. (2015). Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1439819173
Aliassen	spatial MC simulation, Monte Carlo spatial analysis, stochastic spatial simulation, spatial stochastic simulation	Bayesian spatial analysis, Bayesian geostatistics, spatial Bayesian modeling, Bayesian areal modeling
Verwant	4	2
Samenvatting	Spatial Monte Carlo simulation applies random sampling methods to spatial problems, generating many stochastic realisations of a spatial process — such as a random field, point pattern, or network — to estimate distributional properties, propagate uncertainty, or test spatial hypotheses. It is a cornerstone technique in geostatistics, spatial epidemiology, ecology, and environmental modelling.	Spatial Bayesian inference applies Bayesian hierarchical modeling to data indexed by geographic location. By placing structured spatial priors on location-specific random effects, the model borrows information from neighboring regions or nearby points, producing smooth, uncertainty-quantified maps of any spatially varying outcome — disease rates, pollution levels, species abundance, or environmental risk.