A new tool for epidemiology: the usefulness of dynamic-agent models in understanding place effects on health.

By Amy H. Auchincloss, A. D. Diez Roux. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2008

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Agent-Based Modeling in Public Health: Current Applications and Future Directions (2018, background): “One challenge to the use of ABMs for identifying causal mechanisms is the fact that several model configurations may successfully generate the expected population patterns, so scholars cannot always be certain that they have hit on the right explanation (1, 27).”
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