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		Random Forest-Based Multistate Survival Analysis // Fits cause-
		specific random survival forests for flexible multistate
		survival analysis with covariate-adjusted transition
		probabilities computed via product-integral. State transitions
		are modeled by random forests. Subject-specific transition
		probability matrices are assembled from predicted cumulative
		hazards using the product-integral formula. Also provides a
		standalone Aalen-Johansen nonparametric estimator as a
		covariate-free baseline. Supports arbitrary state spaces with
		any number of states (three or more) and any set of allowed
		transitions, applicable to clinical trials, disease
		progression, reliability engineering, and other domains where
		subjects move among discrete states over time. Provides per-
		transition feature importance, bias-variance diagnostics, and
		comprehensive visualizations. Handles right censoring and
		competing transitions. Methods are described in Ishwaran et al.
		(2008) doi:10.1214/08-AOAS169 for random survival forests,
		Putter et al. (2007) doi:10.1002/sim.2712 for multistate
		competing risks decomposition, and Aalen and Johansen (1978)
		https://www.jstor.org/stable/4615704 for the nonparametric
		estimator.
	</longdescription>
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