Pilot Deviant Case Sampling
Pilot deviant case sampling is a purposive sampling strategy applied during a pilot phase in which participants are deliberately selected because they represent extreme, unusual, or atypical instances of the phenomenon under study. Rather than seeking representative participants for the pilot run, the researcher intentionally recruits outlier cases to probe the boundaries of research instruments, interview guides, or data collection protocols before the main study begins.
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- Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (3rd ed.). Sage. [Chapter 5: Sampling Strategies, pp. 230–246 on deviant/extreme case sampling] · ISBN 978-0761919711
- van Teijlingen, E. R., & Hundley, V. (2002). The importance of pilot studies. Nursing Standard, 16(40), 33–36. · URL
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