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Computing Health -Expectancies using IMaCh

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(a Maximum -Likelihood Computer Program using Interpolation of Markov Chains)

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INED and EUROREVES

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June 2004

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Authors of the program: Nicolas -Brouard, senior researcher at -the Institut -National d'Etudes Démographiques -(INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology -Research Unit"

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and Agnès Lièvre (PHD student at INED)

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Contribution to the mathematics: C. R. -Heathcote (Australian -National University, Canberra).

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Contact: Agnès Lièvre (lievre@ined.fr)

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 Main publication concerning the method is -Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies -from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248 -

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New installation method

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Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which -had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version -0.97b IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup). Both -executables imach.exe and gnuplot.exe (the grapher -that we are using) have to be on the same directory. - -
In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach -extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking -on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with -the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).
- - But we discovered that on some computers, people are not allowed - to modify the windows registry and need to have Administrator privileges. - -
- Thus we built two windows installer: a standard setup which will install - the progam (usually in \Program Files\imach and will - modify the registry to associate .imach extension to notepad and imach, and a - second which will not alter the registry. With this second installer you - will be able to install the programs in your home directory and - run it by clicking on the imach.exe icon. But you won't be able - to use the facility of the right clicking. -

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Click -here to access to the detailed documentation

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This software have been partly granted by Euro-REVES, a concerted action -from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the -French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU -software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely -for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely -distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book -"Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of -theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple -justification (name, email, Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr -

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Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS -server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have -replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with -equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library. - -

Latest documentation can be accessed at http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach
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Former binary versions for Windows

Imach version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip
Imach version 0.64 May 2001 can be downloaded in zip file imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe.

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There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can -subscribe by sending a mail to imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr -(and unsubscribe with imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr -

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