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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: 
1.11      brouard    28: <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>March 2006</strong></font></p>
1.1       brouard    29: 
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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 (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>
                     49: 
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>
1.1       brouard    54: </p>
                     55: 
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
1.11      brouard    61: 0.98d IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup).  Both
1.5       brouard    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.
                     72: 
                     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>
                     82: 
                     83: <ul>
1.13    ! brouard    84:     <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.98i-1-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"
1.1       brouard    91:                 face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
                     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
1.11      brouard   109:                 program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail brouard at ined pointfr
                    110:                 and lievre at ined pointfr
                    111:                 .</li>
1.1       brouard   112:         </ul>
                    113:     </li>
1.2       brouard   114:     <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li>
1.1       brouard   115:     <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
                    116:         href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
                    117: </ul>
                    118: 
1.6       brouard   119: <br>
1.13    ! brouard   120: Imach version 0.98i of June 2006 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
        !           121: <a href="imach-0.98i-1-setup.exe">
        !           122: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.98i-1-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
1.6       brouard   123: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
1.12      lievre    124: (usually in Program Files). Please check the md5sum which is
1.13    ! brouard   125: 67cdd50acb8f7abfa8ba22c60f592456 imach-0.98i-1-setup.exe
1.6       brouard   126: 
                    127: <br>We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful
                    128: but exists on most Windows installation.  <br> For people who are not
                    129: allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a
                    130: second setup <a
1.13    ! brouard   131: href="imach-0.98h-1-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.98i-1-noreg-setup.exe</a>.
1.11      brouard   132: <br>
1.13    ! brouard   133: 25e1d824a4557799e11068a45bca2810 imach-0.98i-1-noreg-setup.exe
1.12      lievre    134: 
1.6       brouard   135: 
1.7       brouard   136: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a>
1.10      lievre    137: <h3>On Mac OS/X Panther only (october 2005)</h3>
1.6       brouard   138: 
                    139: IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as
                    140: XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p>
                    141: 
                    142: It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac
1.10      lievre    143: OS/X and to compile it on a MaC (sources tar.gz can be also accessed on our site from <a href=gnuplot-4.0.0.tar.gz>here</a>. The main problem resides in finding
1.6       brouard   144: the png library. Gif images are patented now and the replacement is
                    145: png, but the development of the png library is growing on its own and
                    146: you just have to find on Google where it is hosted now.
                    147: 
                    148: <br>
                    149: Gnuplot can be easily compiled on a MaC, but I don't know yet (July
1.10      lievre    150: 2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot. 
                    151: As already said you need libpng (to be included in terms) which itself needs zlib on the same directory level. Boths sources can be acessed on the Web but here you can get the sources used on the MacOS/X Panther version (<a href- libpng-1.2.5.tgz>libpng-1.2.5.tgz</a> and <a href=zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz>zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz</a>.
                    152: 
                    153: If X11 is already installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD
                    154: or you can download it from the WEB), then you can do <tt>set ter
1.6       brouard   155: X11</tt> and <tt>plot sin(x)</tt> to get a nice sin curve on an X11
                    156: window of your Mac.
                    157: 
                    158: <br> Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't
                    159: need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only
                    160: to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will
                    161: be viewed by your browser.<br>
                    162: 
                    163: You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by
                    164: ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs
                    165: directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them
                    166: with a browser,
                    167: 
                    168: <p>
1.7       brouard   169: You can download a .pkg.pax file at <a
1.6       brouard   170:        href="imach097b.pkg.pax">imach097b.pkg.pax</a>. Stuffit
1.7       brouard   171:       Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just
                    172:       clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local
                    173:       directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created
1.6       brouard   174:       <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you
                    175:       will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and
                    176:       <tt>gnuplot</tt>. 
1.10      lievre    177: <p>You can also download a dmg file (octobre 2005) still for Panther only (we do not have a Tiger version at INED yet) at <a href=imach-0.98panther.dmg>imach-0.98panther.dmg</a>.
1.6       brouard   178: 
                    179: <p>
                    180: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> and IMaCh will be launched in a
1.10      lievre    181: Terminal window, asking you to enter a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A
1.9       brouard   182: parameter file is text file with an extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you
                    183: can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among the parameters
                    184: required, a data file name has to be entered. It can be a relative
                    185: file name like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new
                    186: finder you can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh
                    187: Window that you just created.
1.6       brouard   188: <p>
                    189: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
1.7       brouard   190:       disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for
1.6       brouard   191:       edit or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. The edit command might not work
                    192:       on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which
                    193:       browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment
                    194:       doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too.
                    195: 
                    196: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
                    197:       or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
                    198:       <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
                    199:       file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
                    200:       .imach is changed to .html.
                    201: 
1.7       brouard   202: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is
                    203: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of
                    204: gnuplot is more recent than version 0.38i . I haven't had time to make
                    205: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL
                    206: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions
                    207: are similar to the Mac OS/X version. A binary rpm will be given as
1.8       brouard   208: soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program
                    209: will be GPL licensed.
1.6       brouard   210: 
1.1       brouard   211: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
                    212: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
                    213: 
                    214: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
1.2       brouard   215: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
                    216: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
                    217: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
                    218: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
                    219: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
                    220: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
                    221: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
                    222: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
                    223: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
                    224: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    225: </p>
1.1       brouard   226: 
1.2       brouard   227: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
                    228: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
                    229: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
                    230: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
1.1       brouard   231: 
                    232: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
                    233: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
                    234: </p>
                    235: 
1.5       brouard   236: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users.  You can
1.2       brouard   237: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
                    238: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    239: (and unsubscribe with <a
                    240: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
1.1       brouard   241: </p>
1.10      lievre    242: 
                    243: <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2>
                    244: As discussed at the last 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 used 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.
                    245: 
                    246: <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>.
                    247: 
                    248: <p><a href="wiki"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Access to the new (August 2005) IMaCh Wiki</font></a></p>
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