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<h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Computing Health
Expectancies using IMaCh</font></h1>
<h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="5">(a Maximum
Likelihood Computer Program using Interpolation of Markov Chains)</font></h1>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><img
src="doc/logo-ined.gif" border="0" width="151" height="76"></a><img
src="doc/euroreves2.gif" width="151" height="75"></p>
<h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><font
color="#00006A">INED</font></a><font color="#00006A"> and </font><a
href="http://euroreves.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">EUROREVES</font></a></h3>
<p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>March
2000</strong></font></p>
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<h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Authors of the program: </font><a
href="http://sauvy.ined.fr/brouard"><font color="#00006A">Nicolas
Brouard</font></a><font color="#00006A">, senior researcher at
the </font><a href="http://www.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">Institut
National d'Etudes Démographiques</font></a><font color="#00006A">
(INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology
Research Unit" </font></h4>
<h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">and Agnès Lièvre</font></h4>
<h4><font color="#00006A">Contribution to the mathematics: C. R.
Heathcote </font><font color="#00006A" size="2">(Australian
National University, Canberra).</font></h4>
<h4><font color="#00006A">Contact: Agnès Lièvre (</font><a
href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr"><font color="#00006A"><i>lievre@ined.fr</i></font></a><font
color="#00006A">) </font></h4>
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<h2><font color="#EC5E5E"><strong>Installation</strong></font></h2>
<p>Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to
have a separate directory for imach. <br>
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<ul>
<li>Uncompress the zip file <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach.zip</strong></font>
into an empty directory, <font face="Courier New">imach, </font>for
example<font face="Courier New">.</font></li>
<li>Different sub-directories are created:<ul>
<li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
is <a href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a> .</li>
<li>bin: <ul>
<li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font> the
executable for Windows 95/98/NT compiled
with gcc from cygwin.</li>
<li>graph.gp: an output file which is used by
the grapher, gnuplot, described <a
href="#gp37mgw">next</a>: </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>data: Here are two data files:<font size="4"
face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
<li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
which is the main data file on which the
program has been run as the example in
the main documentation.</li>
<li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
smaller data file which you can use for
your own trial.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>mytry: A sub-directory to try your self. The
imach program outputs its results as <em>text
files </em>(tables) but also <em>images</em>
(actually in gif format) which are obtained in a
second step by running gnuplot (see below) on a
gnuplot command file named 'graph.gp' but also a
single html file 'index.htm' which can be clicked
to summarize your run.</li>
<li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail <a
href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr">mailto:brouard@ined.fr</a>
and <a href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr">mailto:lievre@ined.fr</a>
.</li>
<li><a name="gp37mgw">gp37mgw</a>: This is the
directory of the gnuplot software. Gnuplot for
Unix or Windows 95/98/NT can be accessed freely
with its reference manual from <a
href="http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot/gnuplot.html">http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot/</a>.
The latest version, recently ported to windows,
has been included in imach.zip.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Click on the imach.exe icon to open a window and run the
program.</li>
<li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
<p>This software have been partly granted by <a
href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted
action from the European Union. It will be copyrighted
identically to a GNU software product, i.e. program and software
will be distributed freely for non commercial use. Sources are
not widely distributed today. You can get them by asking us with
a simple justification (name, email, institute) <a
href="mailto:imach@ined.fr">mailto:imach@ined.fr</a> </p>
<p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
Imach latest version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in
zip file <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip</a><br>
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