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		Doubly-Robust Estimation for Survival Outcomes in Cluster-
		Randomized Trials // Cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) assign
		treatment to groups rather than individuals, so valid analyses
		must distinguish cluster-level and individual-level effects and
		define estimands within a potential-outcomes framework. This
		package supports right-censored survival outcomes for both
		single-state (binary) and multi-state settings. For single-
		state outcomes, it provides estimands based on stage-specific
		survival contrasts (SPCE) and restricted mean survival time
		(RMST). For multi-state outcomes, it provides SPCE as well as a
		generalized win-based restricted mean time-in-favor estimand
		(RMT-IF). The package implements doubly robust estimators that
		accommodate covariate-dependent censoring and remain consistent
		if either the outcome model or the censoring model is correctly
		specified. Users can choose marginal Cox or gamma-frailty Cox
		working models for nuisance estimation, and inference is
		supported via leave-one-cluster-out jackknife variance and
		confidence interval estimation. Methods are described in Fang
		et al. (2025) "Estimands and doubly robust estimation for
		cluster-randomized trials with survival outcomes"
		doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.08438.
	</longdescription>
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