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	<longdescription>
		Temporal Parametric Hazard Modeling // Provides native R
		implementations of the multiphase parametric hazard model of
		Blackstone, Naftel, and Turner (1986)
		doi:10.1080/01621459.1986.10478314 with a focus on behavioral
		parity, transparent numerics, and reproducible validation
		against reference outputs from the original 'C'/'SAS' HAZARD
		program, originally developed at the University of Alabama at
		Birmingham (UAB). The 'SAS'/'C' code and this R package are
		currently developed and maintained at The Cleveland Clinic
		Foundation, and the R code was wholly developed at The
		Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The generalized temporal
		decomposition family extends to longitudinal mixed-effects
		settings (Rajeswaran et al. 2018 doi:10.1177/0962280215623583).
		The package is intentionally implemented in pure R first;
		performance-critical paths may later be accelerated with 'Rcpp'
		without changing the public interface.
	</longdescription>
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