New package: LSurvival v1.1.0

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• Registering package: LSurvival
• Repository: https://github.com/alexpkeil1/LSurvival.jl
• Created by: @alexpkeil1
• Version: v1.1.0
• Commit: f0d3b73233e8a1907b3cdbccf04e3ad7de9ee3c3
• Reviewed by: @alexpkeil1
• Reference: Register alexpkeil1/LSurvival.jl#10 (comment)
• Description: Survival analysis functions that allow left truncation and weighting, including Aalen-Johansen, Kaplan-Meier, and Cox proportional hazards regression

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[alexpkeil1]

[noblock] Resubmission after changing module name from LSurv to LSurvival following this: #91190 (comment)

I am requesting a manual merge to over-ride automerge, which fails due to the similarity between "Survival" and "LSurvival." This re-factors some of the capabilities of "Survival.jl" in a way that wouldn't be easily done through modifications to that package. It generalizes the capabilities to much more realistic settings for survival data analysis and so provides unique capabilities for survival analysis in Julia. The confusion between "LSurvival" and "Survival" seems unlikely and the "L" emphasizes functionality for "Left truncation," but "LeftTruncationSurvival" or simpler iterations are cumbersome and suggest limited utility.

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[alexpkeil1]

[noblock] I have already requested this to be manually merged via the recommended slack channel (https://julialang.slack.com/archives/C6M4DQA5P/p1694448732309659) but have received no response via slack nor any apparent action on github. This package now includes parametric, non-parametric, and semi-parametric approaches to survival analysis that allow left truncation and right censoring and thus is more comprehensive and up-to-date than any of the alternative packages that were mentioned in this thread: #91190 (comment)

The only other package that seems to handle left truncation is https://github.com/kkholst/EventHistory.jl, which was last updated 6 years ago.
The only response I recieved via my previous attempt at registering the module was that I should be updating the other modules, but at this point the LSurvival module has surpassed the capabilities of anything existing, so it would require unnecessarily re-duplicating my own efforts on other modules. The only usable survival analysis module in the general registry that I'm aware of is Survival.jl from juliastats, which cannot be easily modified via pull requests to incorporate left truncation because the estimation algorithms in that module rely on shortcuts that only work if left truncation is not allowed. Trying to adapt that module to be as general as LSurvival.jl would require a complete refactorization of that module. I'm happy for someone from JuliaStats to take what I've done and incorporate it into Survival.jl, but I am not in a position to do that myself. Survival.jl is fast, but it isn't suited for very many applied problems, which is why I wrote LSurvival.jl. The functions in LSurvival.jl have been validated, where possible, against the survival package in R, which is the gold standard in applied survival analysis.

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