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		Adaptive Influence-Based Borrowing for Hybrid Control Trials //
		Implements the adaptive influence-based borrowing framework
		proposed by Qinwei Yang, Jingyi Li, Peng Wu, and Shu Yang
		(2026+) in the paper ``Improving Treatment Effect Estimation in
		Trials through Adaptive Borrowing of External Controls"
		doi:10.48550/arXiv.2604.13973 for augmenting Randomized
		Controlled Trials (RCTs) with External Control (EC) data. This
		package provides a comprehensive workflow to: (1) quantify the
		comparability of external control samples using influence
		scores approximated via the influence function of the
		M-estimator; (2) construct candidate borrowing subsets and
		select the optimal subset that minimizes the Mean Squared Error
		(MSE); and (3) calibrate systematic differences in external
		outcomes using R-learner methods implemented via Ordinary Least
		Squares or Kernel Ridge Regression.
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