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		Maximum Likelihood Estimation under Censoring Schemes // Provides
		generalized functions to compute Maximum Likelihood Estimation
		(MLE) for any univariate distribution under various censoring
		and truncation schemes.  Users supply the probability density
		function (PDF), cumulative distribution function (CDF),
		survival function, support bounds, and initial parameter
		values; the package constructs and maximizes the appropriate
		log-likelihood automatically.  Supported schemes include right
		and left truncation, random, right, left, interval, and middle
		censoring, block random censoring, balanced joint progressive
		Type-II (BJPT-II), progressive first failure, joint Type-I,
		Type-I, Type-II, progressive Type-II, Type-II progressively
		hybrid, joint Type-II, hybrid, hybrid Type-I, doubly Type-II,
		Type-I hybrid, and hybrid Type-II censoring.  Optimization
		methods include Newton-Raphson (NR), Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-
		Shanno (BFGS), the BFGS algorithm implemented in R (BFGSR),
		Berndt-Hall-Hall-Hausman (BHHH), Simulated Annealing (SANN),
		Conjugate Gradients (CG), and Nelder-Mead (NM).  Inference
		summaries provide the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC),
		estimated coefficients, log-likelihood, iteration count,
		standard errors, z-values, p-values, and the variance-
		covariance matrix.  Methods are described in Nagar, Kumar, and
		Krishna (2026) doi:10.59467/IJASS.2026.22.1, Goel, Kumar, and
		Krishna (2026, "Estimation in power Lindley distributions using
		balanced joint progressively Type-II censored data"), Wu and
		Kus (2009) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2009.03.010, Goel and Krishna
		(2026) doi:10.1007/s13198-026-03208-w, Balakrishnan and
		Aggarwala (2000, ISBN:978-1-4612-1334-5), Mondal and Kundu
		(2020) doi:10.1080/03610926.2018.1554128, Ding and Gui (2023)
		doi:10.3390/math11092003, Prajapati, Mitra, and Kundu (2019)
		doi:10.1007/s13571-018-0167-0, Yadav, Jaiswal, and Yadav (2026)
		doi:10.1007/s11135-026-02647-8, Iyer, Jammalamadaka, and Kundu
		(2008) doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2007.03.062, Banerjee and Kundu
		(2008) doi:10.1109/TR.2008.916890, Kundu and Joarder (2006)
		doi:10.1016/j.csda.2005.05.002, Berndt, Hall, Hall, and Hausman
		(1974) "Estimation and Inference in Nonlinear Structural
		Models" doi:10.3386/t0003, Fletcher (1987, "Practical Methods
		of Optimization", ISBN:978-0-471-91547-8), Nelder and Mead
		(1965) doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308, McKinnon (1999) "Convergence
		of the Nelder-Mead simplex method to a non-stationary point"
		doi:10.1137/S1052623496303482, Kirkpatrick, Gelatt, and Vecchi
		(1983) doi:10.1126/science.220.4598.671, Fletcher and Reeves
		(1964) doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.2.149, and Nocedal and Wright
		(2006, "Numerical Optimization", ISBN:978-0-387-30303-1).
	</longdescription>
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