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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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Installation

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Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to -have a separate directory for imach. A classical installation for Windows is on Program Files\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. 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
-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 version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip - -
-Imach version 0.97b of June 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file - -http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-setup.exe. The IMaCh -program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want -(usually in Program Files). -

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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

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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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July 2017

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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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with the collaboration of Agnès Lièvre (former PHD student at INED) until 2007

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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)

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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. DOI 10.1080/713644739 +

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Download and instructions for installation

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Current versions July 2017

+ +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 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, Windows 10)

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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". +

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+Imach version 0.99r14 of July 2017 can +be downloaded below as a setup.exe file +imach-0.99?-#-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 (July 2017)

+ +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 5+ for Mac OS/X +and to compile it on a MaC. Currently graphs are output as svg +because the svg format is scalable and thus figures are easier to +improve and to insert in other documents. Sometimes the svg file is to +big and is replaced by a png binary file. But you can get any other +format with gnuplot (for example, on Emacs with gnuplot-mode, just +edit the .gp file, send the first "cd " line to change to current +directory, move to corresponding line of the plot, send the plot line +to gnuplot, visualize on the screen, change the terminal as well as +plot file names). + + +

+You can download below a dmg file, for example imach0.99X.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 version 5+ . If 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 (July 2017) You +can download below a binary rpm file for a 64 +bits Linux, for example: imach-0.99r14-1.x86-64.rpm + +

The Windows binaries have been compiled with native Intel Compiler +on my OS/X Mac using Virtual Box and a Windows 8. 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. + +

Differences between efficiency of binary versions, related to +former errors in the likelihood optimizations algorithms, have be +discussed at + REVES 2015 meeting in Singapore. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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 +

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+Our work is copyrighted as a GNU software product, i.e. program and +software can be distributed freely for non commercial use. We used +some codes from the first book "Numerical Recipes in C" (Press et al, +1992) which is copyrighted. Today, the code of the optimization +programme has been so altered and many bugs have been fixed, +see communication +at the 2015 REVES meeting in Singapore) that we consider that we are +only in debt of the algorithm which has been published. If you want to +get our sources, please ask us with a simple justification (name, +email, +Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr +

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