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		EM Algorithm for Parameter Estimation Under Censoring Schemes //
		Performs parameter estimation using the Expectation-
		Maximization (EM) algorithm of Dempster, Laird, and Rubin
		(1977) doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1977.tb01600.x for arbitrary
		univariate probability distributions under numerous censoring
		and truncation schemes. Users supply the probability density
		function (PDF), cumulative distribution function (CDF),
		survival function, initial parameter vector, support bounds,
		and observed data; the package automatically estimates
		parameters using the EM algorithm under the specified censoring
		scheme. Supported schemes include complete data, right
		censoring, left censoring, interval censoring, random
		censoring, block random censoring, Type-I censoring, Type-II
		censoring, progressive Type-II censoring (Balakrishnan and
		Aggarwala (2000, ISBN:978-1-4612-1334-5)), progressive first
		failure censoring, joint Type-I censoring, joint Type-II
		censoring, balanced joint progressive Type-II censoring, hybrid
		censoring, hybrid Type-I censoring, hybrid Type-II censoring,
		Type-I hybrid censoring, Type-II progressively hybrid
		censoring, doubly Type-II censoring, middle censoring, right
		truncation, and left truncation. Standard errors are computed
		via the observed information matrix (numerical Hessian), the
		Louis (1982) doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1982.tb01203.x method, and
		the supplemented EM (SEM) algorithm of Meng and Rubin (1991)
		doi:10.1080/01621459.1991.10475130. The package also provides
		confidence intervals, model selection criteria (AIC, BIC, AICc,
		HQIC), goodness-of-fit statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Cramer-
		von Mises, Anderson-Darling), residual analysis (randomized
		quantile residuals, generalized residuals), parametric
		bootstrap methods, Aitken acceleration for convergence
		improvement, and comprehensive visualization tools. References:
		Wu and Kus (2009) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2009.03.010, Kundu and
		Joarder (2006) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2005.05.002, Iyer,
		Jammalamadaka, and Kundu (2008) doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2007.03.062,
		Banerjee and Kundu (2008) doi:10.1109/TR.2008.916890,
		Prajapati, Mitra, and Kundu (2019)
		doi:10.1007/s13571-018-0167-0, Mondal and Kundu (2020)
		doi:10.1080/03610926.2018.1554128, Ding and Gui (2023)
		doi:10.3390/math11092003.
	</longdescription>
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