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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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1.11 brouard 28: <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>March 2006</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
1.11 brouard 61: 0.98d IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup). Both
1.5 brouard 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>
1.12 ! lievre 84: <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.98f-1-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
1.11 brouard 109: program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail brouard at ined pointfr
110: and lievre at ined pointfr
111: .</li>
1.1 brouard 112: </ul>
113: </li>
1.2 brouard 114: <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li>
1.1 brouard 115: <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
116: href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
117: </ul>
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1.6 brouard 119: <br>
1.12 ! lievre 120: Imach version 0.98f of March 2006 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
! 121: <a href="imach-0.98f-1-setup.exe">
! 122: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.98e-1-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
1.6 brouard 123: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
1.12 ! lievre 124: (usually in Program Files). Please check the md5sum which is
! 125: 13a291b3ea21a0a69fe31367920dea4f imach-0.98f-1-setup.exe
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127: <br>We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful
128: but exists on most Windows installation. <br> For people who are not
129: allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a
130: second setup <a
1.12 ! lievre 131: href="imach-0.98f-1-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.98f-1-noreg-setup.exe</a>.
1.11 brouard 132: <br>
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1.7 brouard 136: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a>
1.10 lievre 137: <h3>On Mac OS/X Panther only (october 2005)</h3>
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139: IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as
140: XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p>
141:
142: It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac
1.10 lievre 143: 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 144: the png library. Gif images are patented now and the replacement is
145: png, but the development of the png library is growing on its own and
146: you just have to find on Google where it is hosted now.
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149: Gnuplot can be easily compiled on a MaC, but I don't know yet (July
1.10 lievre 150: 2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot.
151: 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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153: If X11 is already installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD
154: or you can download it from the WEB), then you can do <tt>set ter
1.6 brouard 155: X11</tt> and <tt>plot sin(x)</tt> to get a nice sin curve on an X11
156: window of your Mac.
157:
158: <br> Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't
159: need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only
160: to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will
161: be viewed by your browser.<br>
162:
163: You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by
164: ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs
165: directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them
166: with a browser,
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168: <p>
1.7 brouard 169: You can download a .pkg.pax file at <a
1.6 brouard 170: href="imach097b.pkg.pax">imach097b.pkg.pax</a>. Stuffit
1.7 brouard 171: Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just
172: clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local
173: directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created
1.6 brouard 174: <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you
175: will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and
176: <tt>gnuplot</tt>.
1.10 lievre 177: <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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180: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> and IMaCh will be launched in a
1.10 lievre 181: Terminal window, asking you to enter a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A
1.9 brouard 182: parameter file is text file with an extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you
183: can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among the parameters
184: required, a data file name has to be entered. It can be a relative
185: file name like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new
186: finder you can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh
187: Window that you just created.
1.6 brouard 188: <p>
189: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
1.7 brouard 190: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for
1.6 brouard 191: edit or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. The edit command might not work
192: on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which
193: browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment
194: doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too.
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196: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
197: or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
198: <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
199: file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
200: .imach is changed to .html.
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1.7 brouard 202: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is
203: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of
204: gnuplot is more recent than version 0.38i . I haven't had time to make
205: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL
206: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions
207: are similar to the Mac OS/X version. A binary rpm will be given as
1.8 brouard 208: soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program
209: will be GPL licensed.
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1.1 brouard 211: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
212: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
213:
214: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
1.2 brouard 215: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
216: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
217: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
218: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
219: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
220: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
221: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
222: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
223: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
224: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
225: </p>
1.1 brouard 226:
1.2 brouard 227: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
228: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
229: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
230: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
1.1 brouard 231:
232: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
233: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
234: </p>
235:
1.5 brouard 236: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can
1.2 brouard 237: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
238: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
239: (and unsubscribe with <a
240: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
1.1 brouard 241: </p>
1.10 lievre 242:
243: <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2>
244: 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.
245:
246: <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>.
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248: <p><a href="wiki"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Access to the new (August 2005) IMaCh Wiki</font></a></p>
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