The phrase "a study of simpler" is not correct in written English as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could be used in a context where you are discussing a study that focuses on simpler concepts or elements, but it needs to be part of a complete sentence.
Example: "The researchers conducted a study of simpler models to better understand the underlying principles."
Alternatives: "an analysis of simpler" or "an examination of simpler".
A study of very simple hunters and gatherers of recent times shows that several religious conceptions generally considered to be especially "primitive" (e.g., fetishism) hardly play an important part, but rather that, among other things, the supposedly "advanced" conception of a personal creator and preserver of the world does play an important part.
The central pas de deux, for Wendy Whelan and Philip Neal, shifts the jazzy mood to a more evocative study of simple walks and lifts that flow like water.
A cross-sectional study of simple crossover design with within-subject measures carried out between October 2011 and May 2012 at a regional hospital in Spain.
Based on this, a phase III study of simple palliative radiation therapy compared to best supportive care is planned (HE.1, through the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group).
A cross-sectional study of simple crossover design using within-subject measures carried out between October 2011 and May 2012 at the Hospital de Palamós, a reference hospital in the Baix Empordà region.
Mr. Kluger, the author of "Ashes to Ashes," a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the American tobacco industry, and "Simple Justice," a study of the Supreme Court, revisits the primal American story and strips it of romance.
This paper describes a study of a punched plate, with a simple clamping nut-bolt, subjected to cyclic axial loading.
The book's final chapter, one of the best, introduces cellular automata, an ungainly name for the study of simple computational rules that lead to complex consequences.
This sort of dysfunction was on display last year after the Office for Human Research Protections, a regulatory branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, halted a University of Michigan study of a simple five-step checklist to prevent infections at health centers.
The present paper undertakes a theoretical study of a simple solar still coupled to a compression heat pump.
