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		Shared Frailty Regression Models with Inverse Gaussian,
		Generalized Lindley, and Gamma Frailty Distributions //
		Implements shared frailty regression models for survival data
		under eight censoring mechanisms: exact, right censoring
		(Kalbfleisch and Prentice, 2002), left censoring, interval
		censoring (Sun, 2006), progressive Type I censoring, and
		progressive Type II censoring (Balakrishnan and Aggarwala, 2000
		doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1334-5). Combines four frailty
		distributions -- Gamma (Clayton, 1978), Inverse Gaussian
		(Hougaard, 1984), and two variants of the Generalized Lindley
		(GL) distribution: GL Type 1, a two-component gamma mixture
		with distribution-specific scale/shape linkage (Pandey,
		Hanagal, and Tyagi, 2022), and GL Type 2, a two-component gamma
		mixture with a common rate parameter (Pandey and Tyagi, 2021
		doi:10.1134/S1995080222010140) -- with two baseline hazard
		distributions: the two-parameter Weibull distribution (Weibull,
		1951) and the three-parameter Generalized (Exponentiated)
		Weibull distribution (Mudholkar and Srivastava, 1993
		doi:10.1109/24.229504). A no-frailty baseline-only model is
		also supported for nested model comparison. Maximum likelihood
		estimation is conducted using Newton-Raphson and Broyden-
		Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) algorithms via the 'maxLik'
		package (Henningsen and Toomet, 2011
		doi:10.1007/s00180-010-0217-1). Provides standard errors,
		confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, Akaike Information
		Criterion (AIC, Akaike, 1974 doi:10.1109/TAC.1974.1100705),
		Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC, Schwarz, 1978
		doi:10.1214/aos/1176344136), corrected Akaike Information
		Criterion (AICc, Hurvich and Tsai, 1989), Hannan-Quinn
		Information Criterion (HQIC, Hannan and Quinn, 1979), a
		bootstrap approximation of the Widely Applicable Information
		Criterion (WAIC, Watanabe, 2010), k-fold cross-validation,
		frailty variance estimation, survival, hazard, median, risk,
		and marginal predictions, Cox-Snell (Cox and Snell, 1968),
		martingale (Barlow and Prentice, 1988), and deviance residuals
		with a Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test, influence
		diagnostics (leverage, Cook's distance, difference in fits
		(DFFITS), difference in betas (DFBETAS); Belsley, Kuh, and
		Welsch, 1980), random data generation under all eight censoring
		mechanisms, a Monte Carlo simulation-study function, and a
		diagnostic and survival plotting suite.
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