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However, among parametric methods, only linear regression has been proven to form an estimate of the average treatment effect that is asymptotically no less efficient than the treated-minus-control difference in means regardless of the true data generating process. Randomized treatment assignment provides this do-no-harm property, with neither truth of a linear model nor a generative model for the outcomes being required. We present a general calibration method that confers the same no-harm property onto estimators leveraging a broad class of nonlinear models. This recovers the usual regression-adjusted estimator when ordinary least squares is used, and further provides noninferior treatment effect estimators using methods such as logistic and Poisson regression. The resulting estimators are noninferior to both the difference-in-means estimator and to treatment effect estimators that have not undergone calibration. We show that our estimator is asymptotically equivalent to an inverse-probability-weighted estimator using a logit link with predicted potential outcomes as covariates. 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