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		Data Generation and Statistical Inference for Improved Adaptive
		Type-II Progressive Censoring Schemes // Comprehensive
		computational routines for random data generation, Maximum
		Likelihood Estimation (MLE), Maximum Product of Spacings
		Estimation (MPSE), and MCMC Bayesian estimation under the
		Improved Adaptive Type-II Progressive Censoring Scheme (IAT-II
		PCS). Users can supply custom probability density functions
		(PDF), cumulative distribution functions (CDF), survival
		functions, parameter ranges, and progressive censoring plans
		for any continuous univariate lifetime distribution, or rely on
		built-in parametric models (e.g., Generalized Exponential).
		Point estimation methods include MLE via optimization
		algorithms (Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS), Newton-
		Raphson (NR), Nelder-Mead (NM), Conjugate Gradients (CG),
		L-BFGS-B, Simulated Annealing (SANN), and Berndt-Hall-Hall-
		Hausman (BHHH)) and MPSE. Bayesian inference utilizes
		Metropolis-Hastings within Gibbs sampling under Squared Error
		Loss (SEL) and LINEX Loss (LL) functions to compute point
		estimates and Highest Posterior Density (HPD) credible
		intervals. Asymptotic confidence intervals for parameters,
		reliability, and hazard rate functions are constructed using
		asymptotic normality and delta method. Methods are based on Dev
		and Chacko (2026, Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society,
		25, 1-29), Yan, Zhang, and Dong (2021, Journal of Computational
		and Applied Mathematics, 381, 113022,
		doi:10.1016/j.cam.2020.113022), Ng, Kundu, and Chan (2004,
		Naval Research Logistics, 51, 1145-1168,
		doi:10.1002/nav.20045), Cheng and Amin (1983, Journal of the
		Royal Statistical Society Series B, 45, 394-403,
		doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1983.tb01268.x), Kundu and Gupta (1999,
		Australian  New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 41, 173-188,
		doi:10.1111/1467-842X.00072), and Berndt, Hall, Hall, and
		Hausman (1974, Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, 3,
		653-665).
	</longdescription>
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