A Recent Study Among Immigrants Found That Relationships "Based Not

question 96

Multiple Choice

A recent study among immigrants found that relationships "based not on blood or marriage but rather on religious rituals or close friendship ties" can serve as a functional alternative to the nuclear family. According to the text, what are these relationships called?

• A) non-fiction fellows
• B) fake family
• C) comrades in arms
• D) fictive kin

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Definitions:

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

Multiple Correlation

This refers to the correlation between one variable and two or more other variables, assessed using the multiple correlation coefficient.

SSR

The sum of squared residuals, indicating the discrepancy between the observed and predicted values in a statistical model.

SST

Total Sum of Squares, a measure used in statistical analysis to quantify the total variance observed in a dataset.