Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index When making an effort to document inductive reasoning and demonstrate by example behavioral phenomena, whether of people, animals, businesses, or systems of some kind, a case study is often used. Generally a case study is a relatively short, factual account of a sequence of events chosen to illustrate a broader principle. Case studies are widely used in the study of phenomena that by their nature cannot be reproduced in a controlled, laboratory setting. Critics of case studies point out the greater rigor of larger scale studies that are statistically defensible. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.