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		Panel Data Pre-Testing and Diagnostic Suite // Pre-testing and
		diagnostic tools for panel data analysis. Researchers should
		run these tests before any panel regression to verify modelling
		assumptions. The package implements: (1) the Hsiao (2014,
		ISBN:978-1-107-65763-2) homogeneity F-tests (F1/F2/F3), Swamy
		(1970) doi:10.2307/1913012 parameter heterogeneity test, and
		Pesaran (2004) doi:10.2139/ssrn.572504 cross-sectional
		dependence test via xtpretest(); (2) missing-data detection,
		mechanism testing, and imputation for unbalanced panels via
		xtmispanel(); (3) quantile-regression cross-sectional
		dependence tests (T_tau and T-tilde_tau statistics) of
		Demetrescu, Hosseinkouchack and Rodrigues (2023)
		doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2022.09.001 via xtcsdq(); and (4) the
		panel quantile-regression slope homogeneity S-hat and D-hat
		statistics of Galvao, Juhl, Montes-Rojas and Olmo (2017)
		doi:10.1080/07350015.2015.1054493 via xtqsh(). Together these
		tests address three fundamental pre-testing questions: (i) are
		slopes homogeneous? (ii) is there cross-sectional dependence?
		and (iii) is the panel balanced and is missingness ignorable?
	</longdescription>
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