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		Bayesian Nonparametric Conditional Density Modeling in Causal
		Inference and Clustering with a Heavy-Tail Extension // The
		presence of a heavy tail is a feature of many scenarios when
		risk management involves extremely rare events. While
		parametric distributions may give adequate representation of
		the mode of data, they are likely to misrepresent heavy tails,
		and completely nonparametric approaches lack a rigorous
		mechanism for tail extrapolation; see Pickands (1975)
		doi:10.1214/aos/1176343003. The package 'CausalMixGPD'
		implements tools for Bayesian analysis of heavy-tailed outcomes
		by combining Dirichlet process mixture models for the body of
		the distribution with optional generalized Pareto tails. The
		method allows for unconditional and covariate-modulated
		mixtures, implements MCMC estimation using 'nimble', and
		extends to mixtures of different arms' outcomes with
		application to causal inference in the Rubin (1974)
		doi:10.1037/h0037350 framework. Posterior summaries include
		density functions, quantiles, expected values, survival
		functions, and causal effects, with an emphasis on tail
		quantiles and functional measures sensitive to the tail.
	</longdescription>
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