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15: <h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Computing Health
16: Expectancies using IMaCh</font></h1>
17: <h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="5">(a Maximum
18: Likelihood Computer Program using Interpolation of Markov Chains)</font></h1>
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20: <p align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><img
21: src="doc/logo-ined.gif" border="0" width="151" height="76"></a><img
22: src="doc/euroreves2.gif" width="151" height="75"></p>
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24: <h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><font
25: color="#00006A">INED</font></a><font color="#00006A"> and </font><a
26: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">EUROREVES</font></a></h3>
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1.10 ! lievre 28: <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>August 2005</strong></font></p>
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32: <h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Authors of the program: </font><a
33: href="http://sauvy.ined.fr/~brouard"><font color="#00006A">Nicolas
34: Brouard</font></a><font color="#00006A">, senior researcher at
35: the </font><a href="http://www.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">Institut
36: National d'Etudes Démographiques</font></a><font color="#00006A">
37: (INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology
38: Research Unit" </font></h4>
39:
40: <h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">and Agnès Lièvre (PHD student at INED)</font></h4>
41:
42: <h4><font color="#00006A">Contribution to the mathematics: C. R.
43: Heathcote </font><font color="#00006A" size="2">(Australian
44: National University, Canberra).</font></h4>
45:
46: <h4><font color="#00006A">Contact: Agnès Lièvre (</font><a
47: href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr"><font color="#00006A"><i>lievre@ined.fr</i></font></a><font
48: color="#00006A">) </font></h4>
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1.2 brouard 50: <p> Main publication concerning the method is
51: <a href=http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=1f99bwtvmk5yrb7hlhw3&referrer=parent&backto=issue,1,2;journal,2,5;linkingpublicationresults,1:300265,1
52: >Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies
53: from Cross-longitudinal surveys. <em>Mathematical Population Studies</em>.- 10(4), pp. 211-248</a>
1.1 brouard 54: </p>
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1.6 brouard 56: <h2><font color="#EC5E5E"><strong>Download and instructions for installation</strong></font></h2>
1.1 brouard 57:
1.6 brouard 58: <h3>On Windows (win9X, 2000, XP)</h3>
1.5 brouard 59: <p> Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which
60: had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version
61: 0.97b IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup). Both
62: executables <tt>imach.exe</tt> and <tt>gnuplot.exe</tt> (the grapher
63: that we are using) have to be on the same directory.
64:
65: <br> In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach
66: extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking
67: on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with
68: the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).<br>
69:
70: But we discovered that on some computers, people are not allowed
71: to modify the windows registry and need to have Administrator privileges.
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73: <br>
74: Thus we built two windows installer: a standard setup which will install
75: the progam (usually in <tt>\Program Files\imach</tt> and will
76: modify the registry to associate <tt>.imach</tt> extension to notepad and imach, and a
77: second which will not alter the registry. With this second installer you
78: will be able to install the programs in your home directory and
79: run it by clicking on the imach.exe icon. But you won't be able
80: to use the facility of the right clicking.
1.1 brouard 81: </p>
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83: <ul>
1.3 brouard 84: <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.97b-setup.exe</strong></font>
1.2 brouard 85: and execute it .</li>
86: <li>Different sub-directories are created:
87: <ul>
1.1 brouard 88: <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
89: is <a href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a> .</li>
1.2 brouard 90: <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4"
1.1 brouard 91: face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
92: <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
93: which is the main data file on which the
94: program has been run as the example in
95: the main documentation.</li>
96: <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
97: smaller data file which you can use for
98: your own trial.</li>
99: </ul>
1.4 brouard 100: </ul>
101: <li>bin: <ul> <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font>
102: the executable for Windows 95/98/NT compiled with gcc from
103: cygwin.</li> <li> gnuplot, the grapher use by IMaCh. Its
104: reference manual and sources can be accessed from <a
105: href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>.
1.2 brouard 106: </ul>
1.1 brouard 107: </li>
108: <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
109: program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail <a
110: href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr">mailto:brouard@ined.fr</a>
111: and <a href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr">mailto:lievre@ined.fr</a>
112: .</li>
113: </ul>
114: </li>
1.2 brouard 115: <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li>
1.1 brouard 116: <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
117: href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
118: </ul>
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1.6 brouard 120: <br>
121: Imach version 0.97b of June 21 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
1.10 ! lievre 122: <a href="imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe">
1.6 brouard 123: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
124: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
125: (usually in Program Files). We made some errors in the new setup and
126: some erlier versions did not work. Please check the md5sum which is
127: 3cb42bf71396d531d4bc3d42fee46a52 imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe
128:
129: <br>We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful
130: but exists on most Windows installation. <br> For people who are not
131: allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a
132: second setup <a
133: href="imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe</a>.
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1.7 brouard 135: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a>
1.10 ! lievre 136: <h3>On Mac OS/X Panther only (october 2005)</h3>
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138: IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as
139: XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p>
140:
141: It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac
1.10 ! lievre 142: OS/X and to compile it on a MaC (sources tar.gz can be also accessed on our site from <a href=gnuplot-4.0.0.tar.gz>here</a>. The main problem resides in finding
1.6 brouard 143: the png library. Gif images are patented now and the replacement is
144: png, but the development of the png library is growing on its own and
145: you just have to find on Google where it is hosted now.
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147: <br>
148: Gnuplot can be easily compiled on a MaC, but I don't know yet (July
1.10 ! lievre 149: 2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot.
! 150: As already said you need libpng (to be included in terms) which itself needs zlib on the same directory level. Boths sources can be acessed on the Web but here you can get the sources used on the MacOS/X Panther version (<a href- libpng-1.2.5.tgz>libpng-1.2.5.tgz</a> and <a href=zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz>zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz</a>.
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! 152: If X11 is already installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD
! 153: or you can download it from the WEB), then you can do <tt>set ter
1.6 brouard 154: X11</tt> and <tt>plot sin(x)</tt> to get a nice sin curve on an X11
155: window of your Mac.
156:
157: <br> Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't
158: need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only
159: to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will
160: be viewed by your browser.<br>
161:
162: You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by
163: ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs
164: directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them
165: with a browser,
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167: <p>
1.7 brouard 168: You can download a .pkg.pax file at <a
1.6 brouard 169: href="imach097b.pkg.pax">imach097b.pkg.pax</a>. Stuffit
1.7 brouard 170: Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just
171: clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local
172: directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created
1.6 brouard 173: <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you
174: will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and
175: <tt>gnuplot</tt>.
1.10 ! lievre 176: <p>You can also download a dmg file (octobre 2005) still for Panther only (we do not have a Tiger version at INED yet) at <a href=imach-0.98panther.dmg>imach-0.98panther.dmg</a>.
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179: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> and IMaCh will be launched in a
1.10 ! lievre 180: Terminal window, asking you to enter a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A
1.9 brouard 181: parameter file is text file with an extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you
182: can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among the parameters
183: required, a data file name has to be entered. It can be a relative
184: file name like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new
185: finder you can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh
186: Window that you just created.
1.6 brouard 187: <p>
188: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
1.7 brouard 189: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for
1.6 brouard 190: edit or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. The edit command might not work
191: on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which
192: browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment
193: doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too.
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195: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
196: or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
197: <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
198: file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
199: .imach is changed to .html.
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1.7 brouard 201: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is
202: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of
203: gnuplot is more recent than version 0.38i . I haven't had time to make
204: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL
205: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions
206: are similar to the Mac OS/X version. A binary rpm will be given as
1.8 brouard 207: soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program
208: will be GPL licensed.
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1.1 brouard 210: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
211: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
212:
213: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
1.2 brouard 214: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
215: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
216: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
217: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
218: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
219: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
220: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
221: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
222: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
223: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
224: </p>
1.1 brouard 225:
1.2 brouard 226: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
227: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
228: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
229: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
1.1 brouard 230:
231: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
232: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
233: </p>
234:
1.5 brouard 235: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can
1.2 brouard 236: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
237: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
238: (and unsubscribe with <a
239: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
1.1 brouard 240: </p>
1.10 ! lievre 241:
! 242: <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2>
! 243: As discussed at the last REVES meeting in <a href="http://www.prw.le.ac.uk/cgi-bin/reves/2005.cgi">Beijing</a>, we created a Wiki for IMaCh were people having used IMaCh (or having not been able to used 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.
! 244:
! 245: <p> Wikis are a very promising way to give information closer to your expectations. It also a very dynamic movement if you consider the first <a href="http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">International Wikimedia Conference in Francfurt</a> (August 2005), where most Wikis were represented and in particular <a href="http://wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a>.
! 246:
! 247: <p><a href="wiki"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Access to the new (August 2005) IMaCh Wiki</font></a></p>
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