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		Fast and Unified Synthetic Control Methods // A unified 'Formula'
		interface to the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and related
		panel-data causal inference estimators: Synthetic Difference-
		in-Differences (SDID), Generalized Synthetic Control (GSC),
		Matrix Completion (MC), Time-Aware Synthetic Control (TASC),
		and Synthetic Interventions (SI), together with an
		experimental-design variant. Computational bottlenecks
		(quadratic programming, singular value decomposition, and
		Kalman filtering) are implemented in 'C++' via 'RcppArmadillo'.
		Methods are described in Abadie, Diamond and Hainmueller (2010)
		doi:10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08746, Arkhangelsky, Athey, Hirshberg,
		Imbens and Wager (2021) doi:10.1257/aer.20190159, Xu (2017)
		doi:10.1017/pan.2016.2, Athey, Bayati, Doudchenko, Imbens and
		Khosravi (2021) doi:10.1080/01621459.2021.1891924, and Agarwal,
		Shah and Shen (2025) doi:10.1287/opre.2025.1590.
	</longdescription>
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