Comparer des méthodes

	Échantillonnage de cas déviants sur le terrain	Échantillonnage à variation maximale
Domaine	Méthodologie d'enquête	Méthodologie d'enquête
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1980s–1990s (purposive/deviant case sampling literature)	1985 (Lincoln & Guba); elaborated 1990–2002 (Patton)
Auteur d'origine	Michael Quinn Patton; Yvonna Lincoln & Egon Guba	Lincoln & Guba; systematised by Michael Quinn Patton
Type	Purposive qualitative sampling strategy	Purposive qualitative sampling strategy
Source fondatrice	Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (3rd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761919711	Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (3rd ed.). Sage. Chapter 5: Purposeful Sampling. ISBN: 978-0761919711
Alias	field deviant case sampling, outlier case sampling in field research, extreme case sampling in fieldwork, in-situ deviant case sampling	maximum variation sampling, maximum diversity sampling, MVS, heterogeneous sampling
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	Field-based deviant case sampling is a purposive strategy that deliberately selects cases deviating markedly from an established pattern or norm, with data collected through direct fieldwork — observation, in-situ interviews, and ethnographic engagement — in the participants' natural settings. By studying outliers on-site, researchers gain contextually grounded insight into why and how certain cases diverge from the typical pattern.	Maximum variation sampling is a purposive qualitative sampling strategy in which the researcher deliberately selects cases that span the widest possible range of variation on dimensions central to the study. The goal is not statistical representation but the identification of common patterns that cut across diverse cases as well as the documentation of the unique ways each context shapes the phenomenon under investigation.