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		Importance Sampling Inference for Censored Univariate Data //
		Distribution-independent framework for importance-sampling
		inference with univariate observations subject to censoring or
		truncation. Users provide probability functions and a proposal
		over model parameters. Constructs observed-data likelihood
		contributions, computes numerically stable importance weights,
		and supplies posterior, likelihood, predictive, diagnostic, and
		model-comparison summaries. Covers complete, right, left,
		interval, Type-I, Type-II, progressive Type-II, first-failure,
		progressive first-failure, doubly Type-II, middle-censored, and
		left/right-truncated data. Methods for importance sampling and
		censoring schemes are described in Geweke (1989)
		doi:10.2307/2290062, Hesterberg (1995)
		doi:10.1080/00031305.1995.10476138, Robert and Casella (2004,
		ISBN:978-0-387-21617-1), Kundu and Joarder (2006)
		doi:10.1016/j.csda.2005.05.002, Banerjee and Kundu (2008)
		doi:10.1109/TR.2008.916890, Iyer, Jammalamadaka, and Kundu
		(2008) doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2007.03.062, Wu and Kus (2009)
		doi:10.1016/j.csda.2009.03.010, Prajapati, Mitra, and Kundu
		(2019) doi:10.1007/s13571-018-0167-0, Mondal and Kundu (2020)
		doi:10.1080/03610926.2018.1554128, Balakrishnan and Aggarwala
		(2000, ISBN:980-1-4612-1334-5), Ding and Gui (2023)
		doi:10.3390/math11092003, Nagar, Kumar, and Krishna (2026)
		doi:10.59467/IJASS.2026.22.1, Goel and Krishna (2026)
		doi:10.1007/s13198-026-03208-w, Yadav, Jaiswal, and Yadav
		(2026) doi:10.1007/s11135-026-02647-8, and Goel, Kumar, and
		Krishna (2026, "Estimation in power Lindley distributions using
		balanced joint progressively Type-II censored data").
	</longdescription>
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