Table 1.

Sources of Data Leveraged to Model Impacts of Population Interventions

	Modeling Strategy
Data Sources for Models	Conventional Regression	G-Computation	Agent-Based Modeling
Individual and group-level observations from primary data set	X	X	X
Potentially counterfactual time-varying variables simulated from models fit to primary data set		X	X
Potentially counterfactual group-level variables aggregated from individual-level simulated variables		X	X
Potentially counterfactual time-varying variables simulated from models fit to other data sets			X
Potentially counterfactual time-varying variables simulated from hypothesized mechanisms for interactions between units			X