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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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February 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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Installation

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Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to -have a separate directory for imach. A classical installation for Windows is on Program Files\imach
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