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		Estimating Penalized AFT Models via Coordinate Descent //
		Provides penalized accelerated failure time (AFT) model
		estimation for right-censored and partly interval-censored
		survival data using induced smoothing and coordinate descent
		algorithms. Supported penalties include broken adaptive ridge
		(BAR), LASSO, adaptive LASSO, and SCAD. Core estimation
		routines are implemented in 'C++' via 'Rcpp' and
		'RcppArmadillo' for computational efficiency. The methodology
		is related to Zeng and Lin (2008)
		doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxm034, Xu et al. (2010)
		doi:10.1002/sim.2576, Dai et al. (2018)
		doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2018.08.007, and Choi et al. (2025)
		doi:10.48550/arXiv.2503.11268.
	</longdescription>
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