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Computing Health -Expectancies using IMaCh

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(a Maximum -Likelihood Computer Program using Interpolation of Markov Chains)

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INED and EUROREVES

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February 2004

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Authors of the program: Nicolas -Brouard, senior researcher at -the Institut -National d'Etudes Démographiques -(INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology -Research Unit"

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and Agnès Lièvre (PHD student at INED)

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Contribution to the mathematics: C. R. -Heathcote (Australian -National University, Canberra).

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Contact: Agnès Lièvre (lievre@ined.fr)

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 Main publication concerning the method is -Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies -from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248 -

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Installation

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Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to -have a separate directory for imach.
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Click -here to access to the detailed documentation

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This software have been partly granted by Euro-REVES, a concerted -action from the European Union. Our work is copyrighted as -a GNU software product, i.e. program and software -can be distributed freely for non commercial use, but actually some sources are -not widely distributed today because they borrow some code from the book "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of theses sources you can get our source by asking us with -a simple justification (name, email, Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr

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Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library. - -

Latest documentation can be accessed at http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach
-Imach version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in zip -file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip
-Imach version 0.64 May 2001 can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip -
-Imach version 0.8 March 2002 can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip -
-Imach version 0.8a May 2002 can be downloaded in zip file -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip -
-Imach latest version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip - -

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New (March 2002). We set up a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. -You can subscribe -by sending a mail to imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr (and unsubscribe with imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr -

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Computing Health +Expectancies using IMaCh

+

(a Maximum +Likelihood Computer Program using Interpolation of Markov Chains)

+ +

+ +

INED and EUROREVES

+ +

August 2015

+ +
+ +

Authors of the program: Nicolas +Brouard, senior researcher at +the Institut +National d'Etudes Démographiques +(INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology +Research Unit"

+ +

and Agnès Lièvre (former PHD student at INED)

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Contribution to the mathematics: C. R. +Heathcote (Australian +National University, Canberra).

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Contact: Nicolas Brouard (brouard@ined.fr)

+ +

 Main publication concerning the method is +Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies +from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248. DOI 10.1080/713644739 +

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Download and instructions for installation

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Current versions August 2015

+ +The grapher that IMaCh uses is gnuplot +from http://www.gnuplot.info/. +Gnuplot has evolved since version IMaCh 0.98k and therefore you need +at least Gnuplot 4.6.5. Otherwise you need to adapt the .gp file +produced in order to run with your old gnuplot. + +With the installer provided for OS/X and Windows, a recent gnuplot +binary is provided and will be installed on the same directory that +the IMaCh binary. It is better to use your own Gnuplot installation +and IMaCh will test the command '''gnuplot''' but if the binary in not +in your path, it will make a error but will use the binary provided by +the installers. Using recent gnuplot installations, there is usually a +possibility to add the gnuplot binary in your path. + +

On Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)

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Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which +had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version +0.98d and above IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup 5.5.5). + +
In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach +extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking +on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with +the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).
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You need to have the Administrator privileges to install the +software. We don't propose anymore an installation which does not +alter registry because we think that you all have access, even +temporarly, to Administrator privileges (usally by right clicking the +.exe you can choose "Install with Administrators privileges". +

+ + + +
+Imach version 0.98q4 of August 2015 can +be downloaded below as a setup.exe file +imach-0.98?-#-setup.exe. The ? corresponds to a version number while +the # corresponds to same program but compiled differently. +
+After having tested crosscompilations from a Unix box we moved to native versions +compiled with Visual Studio Express compiler 2013 32 and 64bit +bits) and, better, Intel C/C++ compiler from the package Intel® Parallel Studio 2015 + + + + + + + + + + +The IMaCh program and gnuplot will be +installed in the directory of your choice (usually in Program or Program +Files). Please check the corresponding md5sum, if the download is corrupted. + +
After installation, a right click on a .imach file lets you edit with +the notepad text editor (which is less useful than other text editor +like workpad but which have the advantage to be installed on any Windows). +
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Old Windows versions are accessible here. + +

On Mac OS/X Lion and higher (August 2015)

+ +IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc on MacIntosh as soon as +XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.

+ +It take a litle more time to get version of Gnuplot 4.6.5+ for Mac +OS/X and to compile it on a MaC. Currently graphs are output as png +files. We will probably moved to svg because the svg format is +scalable and thus figures are easier to improve and to insert in other +documents. + + +

+You can download below a dmg file, for example imach0.98nX.dmg and install + it. Like on Windows, two sub-directories are created + bin and html . In the bin subdirectory you + will find two executables imach itself and + gnuplot. With recent versions, this tree is embedded in + an Application. +

+You need to click on imach application and IMaCh will be +launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter the name of +a parameter file. A parameter file is a text file with an +extension .imach (but you can use a .txt extension +if you want. Among the parameters required, a data file name has to +be entered. It can be a relative file name +like ../../data/data1.txt.
If you open a new finder you +can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh Window that +you just created. +

+At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to +disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "e" for +editing/viewing the results (with your browser) or "q" for quit. + +
You can use the finder + or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the main + .html (or .htm) file created. The name of this main + html file is the same name as your parameter file, only the + extension .imach is changed to .html. If you slightly change the + parameters, you just have to give another name and the new + results will not override the former. + +

On Linux

There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is +distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of +gnuplot is more recent than version 4.6.5 . I haven't had time to make +a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL +today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions +are similar to the Mac OS/X version. +

+New (August 2015) You +can download below a binary tar file for +respectively a 32 bits or 64 bits Linux bo, for example: +imach-Linux-0.98q4-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2 and +imach-Linux-0.98q4-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz2 + +

The binaries have been crosscompiled with gcc on my OS/X Mac. +Each binary contains two directories bin +and html/doc . In the bin subdirectory you will find +the imach executable and in html/doc +the biaspar.imach test parameter file and its corresponding +data file data1.txt. In order to run the test the command +is ./bin/imach ./html/doc/biaspar.imach

+ gnuplot should be installed otherwise at the end of the + run (optimization and calculations last at least 7 minutes on + today most efficient hardwares) the command gnuplot + biaspar.gp will fail. If successful, typing e will + open biaspar.htm with your browser and all the results + including graphs generated by gnuplot will appear. + +

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Downloads (see Download page for recent binaries)

Version 0.98p0 is similar + to earlier versions with, hopefully, less bugs. Version 0.98q0 has + one main advantage and one main disadvantage: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
OS OS subtypeVersionCompilerFile to downloadMD5 cheksum
Windows32&64bits0.98p0
Intel Compiler 2015 with VisualStudio2013imach-0.98p0-ilc-setup.exec4c8d47d24c76f6d2a5b0bfc52c43395

0.98q0Intel Compiler 2015 with VisualStudio2013imach-0.98q0-ilc-setup.exea7d40b3288d84187633a07289492f7dd
OS/X64 bits0.98p0
Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56)imach0.98p0.dmg94e75fe3d141d9e5394ce3c53b98b987



0.98q0Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56)imach0.98q0.dmgb4dbd03d9bb2039cfc6a013411789ad6
Linux64bits0.98p0
gcc-4.8.1-for-linux64imach-Linux-0.98p0-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz20974bcf30596f94f97d0e80acaf5a1bb
64bits
0.98q0gcc-4.8.1-for-linux64imach-Linux-0.98q0-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz2769f1153e78e6dd34d483aaa9fddd50b
32bits0.98p0
gcc-4.8.1-for-linux32imach-Linux-0.98p0-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2034fe6ca6dfeb84eb2d735dea7ad7a9b
32bits
0.98q0gcc-4.8.1-for-linux32imach-Linux-0.98q0-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz20d9c4d982ea43eda4b2dd058441459b3
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Downloads + and bugs reported

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Click +here to access to the detailed documentation

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Grants

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In addition to INED, this software have been partly granted +

+ +

+Our work is copyrighted as a GNU software product, i.e. program and +software can be distributed freely for non commercial use, but +actually some sources are not widely distributed today because they +borrow some codes from the book "Numerical Recipes in C" which is +copyrighted. If you are an owner of theses sources you can get our +sources by asking us with a simple justification (name, email, +Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr +

+ +

Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS +server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have +replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with +equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library. + +

Latest documentation can be accessed at http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation
+ +

There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can +subscribe by sending a mail to imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr +(and unsubscribe with imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr) + for help, comments and + reports on the performance (see the Performance section of + the wiki). Archives can be accessed at https://listes.ined.fr/arc/imach-users +

If you ask for help, it is usually easier to send the parameter file, the .log file as well as some records of the datafile. + +

IMaCh Wiki

As discussed at the REVES meeting +in Beijing, +we created a Wiki for IMaCh were people having used IMaCh (or having +not been able to use it because of obscure or unadequate features) can +add tips and discuss various aspects of IMaCh and interface with other +statistical softwares. In many aspects, our "official documentation" +is not accurate enough. + +

Wikis are a promising way to give information closer to your +expectations. It also a very dynamic movement if you consider the +first International +Wikimedia Conference in Francfurt (August 2005), where most Wikis +were represented and in +particular Wikipedia. + +

Access to the IMaCh Wiki

. Please ask for a username and password. + + + + +
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