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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>
19:
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>
23:
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>
27:
28: <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>August 2014</strong></font></p>
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31:
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 (former 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: Nicolas Brouard (</font><a
47: href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr"><font color="#00006A"><i>brouard@ined.fr</i></font></a><font
48: color="#00006A">) </font></h4>
49:
50: <p> Main publication concerning the method is
51: <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713644739>Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies
52: from Cross-longitudinal surveys. <em>Mathematical Population Studies</em>.- 10(4), pp. 211-248. DOI 10.1080/713644739</a>
53: </p>
54:
55: <h2><font color="#EC5E5E"><strong>Download and instructions for installation</strong></font></h2>
56:
57: <h3> Current versions August 2014 </h3>
58: <ul>
59: <li>On Windows (win9X, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8): 0.98nV</li>
60: <li>On MacOS/X Leopard: 0.98nV</li>
61: <li>On Linux, ask for the CVS version </li>
62: </ul>
63: The grapher that IMaCh uses is gnuplot
64: from <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>.
65: Gnuplot has evolved since version IMaCh 0.98k and therefore you need
66: at least Gnuplot 4.6. Otherwise you need to adapt the .gp file
67: produced in order to run with your old gnuplot.
68:
69: With the installer provided for OS/X and Windows, a recent gnuplot
70: binary is provided and will be installed on the same directory that
71: the IMaCh binary. It is better to use your own Gnuplot installation
72: and IMaCh will test the command '''gnuplot''' but if the binary in not
73: in your path, it will make a error but will use the binary provided by
74: the installers. Using recent gnuplot installations, there is usually a
75: possibility to add the gnuplot binary in your path.
76:
77: <h3>On Windows (win9X, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)</h3>
78: <p> Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which
79: had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version
80: 0.98d and above IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup).
81:
82: <br> In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach
83: extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking
84: on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with
85: the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).<br>
86:
87: But we discovered that on some computers, people are not allowed
88: to modify the windows registry and need to have Administrator privileges.
89:
90: <br>
91: Thus we built two windows installer: a standard setup which will install
92: the progam (usually in <tt>\Program Files\imach</tt> and will
93: modify the registry to associate <tt>.imach</tt> extension to notepad and imach, and a
94: second which will not alter the registry. With this second installer you
95: will be able to install the programs in your home directory and
96: run it by clicking on the imach.exe icon. But you won't be able
97: to use the facility of the right clicking.
98: </p>
99:
100: <ul>
101: <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe</strong></font>
102: and execute it .</li>
103: <li> Download <font size="2" face="Courier
104: New"><strong>gnuplot</strong></font> 4.6.5
105: at <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>
106: ; at the end of the install it is asked if you want to have the
107: gnuplot binary in your path, say yes.</li>
108: <li>Different sub-directories are created:
109: <ul>
110: <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
111: is <a href="wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a> .</li>
112: <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4"
113: face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
114: <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
115: which is the main data file on which the
116: program has been run as the example in
117: the main documentation.</li>
118: <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
119: smaller data file which you can use for
120: your own trial.</li>
121: </ul>
122: </ul>
123: <li>bin: <ul> <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font>
124: the executable for Windows cross-compiled on OS/X with i386-mingw32-gcc
125: </li> <li> gnuplot, the grapher used by IMaCh. Its
126: reference manual and sources can be accessed from <a
127: href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>.
128: </ul>
129: </li>
130: <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
131: program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail brouard at ined pointfr
132: .</li>
133: </ul>
134: </li>
135: <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with
136: IMaCh. At the end of the program, IMaCh uses gnuplot to produce
137: the graphs, then you can open your browser to read the main .htm
138: file with all results and graphs. If gnuplot is not installed or
139: not in your path, you have to run gnuplot on the ".gp" source file
140: generated by imach. Using wgnuplot you have to "open" it. </li>
141: <li>Read the file README.txt
142: </ul>
143:
144: <br>
145: Imach version 0.98nV of August 2014 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
146: <a href="imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe">
147: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
148: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
149: (usually in Program Files). Please check the md5sum which is
150: e5ce179ee1e32d7514be82c0cc19e1fb imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe
151:
152: <br>We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful
153: but exists on most Windows installation. <br> For people who are not
154: allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a
155: second setup <a
156: href="imach-0.98nV-1-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.98nV-1-noreg-setup.exe</a>.
157: <br>
158: 3b477ff19fc4607a32b412e9ad977101 imach-0.98nV-1-noreg-setup.exe
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160:
161: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a>
162: <h3>On Mac OS/X Leopard (August 2014)</h3>
163:
164: IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as
165: XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p>
166:
167: It take a litle more time to get version of Gnuplot 4.6.5+ for Mac OS/X
168: and to compile it on a MaC. Currently graphs are output as png
169: files. We will probably moved to svg because the svg format is
170: scalable and thus figures are easier to improve and insert in other documents.
171:
172:
173: <p>
174: You can download a dmg file
175: at <a href="imach0.98nV.dmg">imach0.98nV.dmg</a> (md5sum
176: e2256e6bd4e6f944f17b6be366ce375c). Like on Windows, two
177: sub-directories are created
178: <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you
179: will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and
180: <tt>gnuplot</tt>.
181:
182: <p>
183: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> application and IMaCh will be
184: launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter
185: a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A parameter file is a text file with an
186: extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension
187: if you want. Among the parameters required, a data file name has to
188: be entered. It can be a relative file name
189: like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new finder you
190: can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh Window that
191: you just created.
192: <p>
193: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
194: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for
195: edit (with your browser) or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit.
196:
197: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
198: or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
199: <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
200: file has the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
201: .imach is changed to .html.
202:
203: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is
204: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of
205: gnuplot is more recent than version 4.6 . I haven't had time to make
206: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL
207: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions
208: are similar to the Mac OS/X version.
209:
210: <p><a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation"><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
214: by <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted
215: action from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by
216: the French Institute on Longevity. In January 2014, it has been
217: granted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
218: (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 25293121.
219: <p>
220: Our work is copyrighted as a GNU software product, i.e. program and
221: software can be distributed freely for non commercial use, but
222: actually some sources are not widely distributed today because they
223: borrow some codes from the book "Numerical Recipes in C" which is
224: copyrighted. If you are an owner of theses sources you can get our
225: sources by asking us with a simple justification (name, email,
226: Institute) <a href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
227: </p>
228:
229: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
230: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
231: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
232: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
233:
234: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
235: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a><br>
236:
237: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can
238: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
239: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
240: (and unsubscribe with <a
241: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
242: </p>
243:
244: <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2>
245: As discussed at the 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 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.
246:
247: <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>.
248:
249: <p><a href="wiki"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Access to the IMaCh Wiki</font></a></p>. Please ask for a username and password.
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