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		Treatment Effect Inference for Terminal and Non-Terminal Events
		under Competing Risks // Provides several confidence interval
		and testing procedures, based on either semiparametric (using
		event-specific win ratios) or nonparametric measures, including
		the ratio of integrated cumulative hazard (RICH) and the ratio
		of integrated transformed cumulative hazard (RITCH), for
		treatment effect inference with terminal and non-terminal
		events under competing risks. The semiparametric results were
		developed in Yang et al. (2022 doi:10.1002/sim.9266), and the
		nonparametric results were developed in Yang (2025
		doi:10.1002/sim.70205). For comparison, results for the win
		ratio (Finkelstein and Schoenfeld 1999
		doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990615)18:11%3C1341::AID-
		SIM129%3E3.0.CO;2-7), Pocock et al. 2012
		doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehr352, and Bebu and Lachin 2016
		doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxv032) are included. The package
		also supports univariate survival analysis with a single event.
		In this package, effect size estimates and confidence intervals
		are obtained for each event type, and several testing
		procedures are implemented for the global null hypothesis of no
		treatment effect on either terminal or non-terminal events.
		Furthermore, a test of proportional hazards assumptions, under
		which the event-specific win ratios converge to hazard ratios,
		and a test of equal hazard ratios, are provided. For
		summarizing the treatment effect across all events, confidence
		intervals for linear combinations of the event-specific win
		ratios, RICH, or RITCH are available using pre-determined or
		data-driven weights. Asymptotic properties of these inference
		procedures are discussed in Yang et al. (2022
		doi:10.1002/sim.9266) and Yang (2025 doi:10.1002/sim.70205).
	</longdescription>
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