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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
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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>
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>
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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"
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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
122: <a href=imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe">
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
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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>
1.6 brouard 136: <h3>On Mac OS/X</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>
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141: It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac
142: OS/X and to compile it on a MaC. The main problem resides in finding
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
149: 2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot. For sure if
150: X11 is installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD
151: or you can download it from the WEB), the you can do <tt>set ter
152: X11</tt> and <tt>plot sin(x)</tt> to get a nice sin curve on an X11
153: window of your Mac.
154:
155: <br> Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't
156: need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only
157: to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will
158: be viewed by your browser.<br>
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160: You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by
161: ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs
162: directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them
163: with a browser,
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1.7 brouard 166: You can download a .pkg.pax file at <a
1.6 brouard 167: href="imach097b.pkg.pax">imach097b.pkg.pax</a>. Stuffit
1.7 brouard 168: Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just
169: clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local
170: directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created
1.6 brouard 171: <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you
172: will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and
173: <tt>gnuplot</tt>.
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176: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> and IMaCh will be launched in a
177: terminal window, asking you to enter a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A
178: parameter file is text file with an extension <tt>.imach</tt>
179: (but you can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among
180: the parameters required, a data file name has to be entered. It
181: can be a relative file name like
182: <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. It might also work if you use the
183: Windows backslash "<tt>\</tt>" syntax.
184: <p>
185: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
1.7 brouard 186: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for
1.6 brouard 187: edit or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. The edit command might not work
188: on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which
189: browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment
190: doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too.
191:
192: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
193: or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
194: <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
195: file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
196: .imach is changed to .html.
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1.7 brouard 198: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is
199: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of
200: gnuplot is more recent than version 0.38i . I haven't had time to make
201: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL
202: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions
203: are similar to the Mac OS/X version. A binary rpm will be given as
1.8 ! brouard 204: soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program
! 205: will be GPL licensed.
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1.1 brouard 207: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
208: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
209:
210: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
1.2 brouard 211: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
212: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
213: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
214: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
215: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
216: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
217: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
218: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
219: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
220: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
221: </p>
1.1 brouard 222:
1.2 brouard 223: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
224: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
225: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
226: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
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228: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
229: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
230: </p>
231:
1.5 brouard 232: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can
1.2 brouard 233: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
234: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
235: (and unsubscribe with <a
236: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
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