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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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June 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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Download and instructions for installation

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On Windows (win9X, 2000, XP)

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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 -0.97b IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup). Both -executables imach.exe and gnuplot.exe (the grapher -that we are using) have to be on the same directory. - -
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).
- - But we discovered that on some computers, people are not allowed - to modify the windows registry and need to have Administrator privileges. - -
- Thus we built two windows installer: a standard setup which will install - the progam (usually in \Program Files\imach and will - modify the registry to associate .imach extension to notepad and imach, and a - second which will not alter the registry. With this second installer you - will be able to install the programs in your home directory and - run it by clicking on the imach.exe icon. But you won't be able - to use the facility of the right clicking. -

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-Imach version 0.97b of June 21 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file - -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe. The IMaCh -program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want -(usually in Program Files). We made some errors in the new setup and -some erlier versions did not work. Please check the md5sum which is -3cb42bf71396d531d4bc3d42fee46a52 imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe - -
We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful -but exists on most Windows installation.
For people who are not -allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a -second setup imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe. - -

Old Windows versions are accessible here. -

On Mac OS/X

- -IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as -XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.

- -It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac -OS/X and to compile it on a MaC. The main problem resides in finding -the png library. Gif images are patented now and the replacement is -png, but the development of the png library is growing on its own and -you just have to find on Google where it is hosted now. - -
-Gnuplot can be easily compiled on a MaC, but I don't know yet (July -2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot. For sure if -X11 is installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD -or you can download it from the WEB), the you can do set ter -X11 and plot sin(x) to get a nice sin curve on an X11 -window of your Mac. - -
Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't -need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only -to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will -be viewed by your browser.
- -You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by -ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs -directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them -with a browser, - -

-You can download a .pkg.pax file at imach097b.pkg.pax. Stuffit - Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just - clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local - directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created - bin and html . In the bin subdirectory you - will find two executables imach itself and - gnuplot. - -

-You need to click on imach and IMaCh will be launched in a -terminal window, asking you to enter a parameter file. A -parameter file is 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 - edit or "q" for quit. The edit command might not work - on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which - browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment - doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too. - -
The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder - or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the - .html (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html - file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension - .imach is changed to .html. - -

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 0.38i . 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. A binary rpm will be given as -soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program -will be GPL licensed. - -

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. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the -French Institute on Longevity. 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 -

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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
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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 -

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Computing Health +Expectancies using IMaCh

+

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

+ +

+ +

INED and EUROREVES

+ +

March 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)

+ +

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

+ +

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 +

+ +

Download and instructions for installation

+ +

Current versions March 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).
+ +
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 0.98p0 and 0.98q0 of March 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). +
+ + + + + +

Old Windows versions are accessible here. + +

On Mac OS/X Lion and higher (March 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 (March 2015) You +can download below a binary tar file for +respectively a 32 bits or 64 bits Linux bo, for example: +imach-Linux-0.98p0-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2 and +imach-Linux-0.98p0-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. Please + subscribe to the mailing + list imach-users@listes.ined.fr for comments and + reports on the performance (see the Performance section of + the wiki). + +

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Downloads

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
+

Other downloads + and bugs reported

+ +

Click +here to access to the detailed documentation

+ +

Grants

+

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 +

+ +

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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