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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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1.4 ! brouard 28: <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>June 2004</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>
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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>
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55:
56: <h2><font color="#EC5E5E"><strong>Installation</strong></font></h2>
57:
58: <p>Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to
1.2 brouard 59: have a separate directory for imach. A classical installation for Windows is on Program Files\imach <br>
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62: <ul>
1.3 brouard 63: <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.97b-setup.exe</strong></font>
1.2 brouard 64: and execute it .</li>
65: <li>Different sub-directories are created:
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1.1 brouard 67: <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
68: is <a href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a> .</li>
1.2 brouard 69: <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4"
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71: <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
72: which is the main data file on which the
73: program has been run as the example in
74: the main documentation.</li>
75: <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
76: smaller data file which you can use for
77: your own trial.</li>
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! 80: <li>bin: <ul> <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font>
! 81: the executable for Windows 95/98/NT compiled with gcc from
! 82: cygwin.</li> <li> gnuplot, the grapher use by IMaCh. Its
! 83: reference manual and sources can be accessed from <a
! 84: href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>.
1.2 brouard 85: </ul>
1.1 brouard 86: </li>
87: <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
88: program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail <a
89: href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr">mailto:brouard@ined.fr</a>
90: and <a href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr">mailto:lievre@ined.fr</a>
91: .</li>
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1.2 brouard 94: <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li>
1.1 brouard 95: <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
96: href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
97: </ul>
98:
99: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
100: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
101:
102: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
1.2 brouard 103: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
104: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
105: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
106: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
107: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
108: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
109: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
110: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
111: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
112: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
113: </p>
1.1 brouard 114:
1.2 brouard 115: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
116: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
117: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
118: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
1.1 brouard 119:
120: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
121: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
1.2 brouard 122: Imach version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in zip file <a
123: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip</a>
124: <br> Imach version 0.64 May 2001 can be downloaded in zip file <a
1.1 brouard 125: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip</a>
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127: Imach version 0.8 March 2002 can be downloaded in zip file <a
128: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip</a>
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130: Imach version 0.8a May 2002 can be downloaded in zip file <a
131: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip">
132: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip</a>
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1.2 brouard 134: Imach version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file <a
1.1 brouard 135: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip">
136: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip</a>
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1.2 brouard 138: <br>
139: Imach version 0.97b of June 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
140: <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-setup.exe">
141: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
142: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
143: (usually in Program Files).
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1.2 brouard 146: <p> We set up a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can
147: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
148: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
149: (and unsubscribe with <a
150: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
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