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ethnic identity

an individual’s sense of being a person who is defined, in part, by membership in a specific ethnic group. This sense is usually considered to be a complex construct involving shared social, cultural, linguistic, religious, and often racial factors but identical with none of them.

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statistical stability

statistical stability

consistency of results across samples, study designs, and analyses. A meta-analysis may be used to examine the stability of means, correlations, and other parameter estimates obtained from different studies of the same population. See also stability coefficient.