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		Interactive Fixed Effects Estimator for Panel Data // Implements
		the interactive fixed effects ('IFE') panel estimator of Bai
		(2009) doi:10.3982/ECTA6135 for balanced and unbalanced panels,
		with optional additive unit and/or time fixed effects. Provides
		analytical standard errors ('homoskedastic', 'HC1'
		heteroskedasticity-robust, cluster-robust by unit, and
		heteroskedasticity- and autocorrelation- consistent), together
		with asymptotic incidental-parameter bias correction for large
		panels, including a dynamic extension for predetermined
		(lagged-dependent) regressors following Moon and Weidner (2017)
		doi:10.1017/S0266466615000328. The number of factors is chosen
		by information criteria (Bai and Ng 2002
		doi:10.1111/1468-0262.00273) or by singular value thresholding.
		Unbalanced panels are handled by an expectation-maximisation
		algorithm with nuclear-norm-regularised initialisation, with
		estimation, analytical inference, and bias correction following
		Su, Wang and Wang (2025) doi:10.2139/ssrn.5177283 and building
		on the matrix-completion and missing-data factor analysis of
		Bai and Ng (2021) doi:10.1080/01621459.2021.1967163. All
		computations use base R only, with no external dependencies.
	</longdescription>
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