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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>
                     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
1.15    ! brouard    36: National d'Etudes Démographiques</font></a><font color="#00006A">
1.14      brouard    37: (INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology
                     38: Research Unit" </font></h4>
                     39: 
1.15    ! brouard    40: <h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">and Agnès Lièvre (former PHD student at INED)</font></h4>
1.14      brouard    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: 
1.15    ! brouard    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 
1.14      brouard    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>
1.15    ! brouard   101:     <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier
        !           102:         New"><strong>imach-0.98nX-1-setup.exe</strong></font> and
        !           103:         execute it .</li>
1.14      brouard   104:     <li> Download <font size="2" face="Courier
                    105:     New"><strong>gnuplot</strong></font> 4.6.5
                    106:     at <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>
                    107:     ; at the end of the install it is asked if you want to have the
                    108:     gnuplot binary in your path, say yes.</li>
                    109:     <li>Different sub-directories are created:
                    110:           <ul>
                    111:             <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
1.15    ! brouard   112:                 is <a href="wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a>
        !           113:                 .</li>
1.14      brouard   114:                 <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4"
                    115:                 face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
                    116:                     <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
                    117:                         which is the main data file on which the
                    118:                         program has been run as the example in
                    119:                         the main documentation.</li>
                    120:                     <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
                    121:                         smaller data file which you can use for
                    122:                         your own trial.</li>
                    123:                 </ul>
                    124:                </ul>
1.15    ! brouard   125:             <li>bin: <ul> 
        !           126:                <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font></li> 
        !           127:                <li> gnuplot, the grapher used by IMaCh.  Its
1.14      brouard   128:             reference manual and sources can be accessed from <a
                    129:             href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>.
                    130:                 </ul>
                    131:             </li>
                    132:             <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
                    133:                 program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail brouard at ined pointfr
                    134:                 .</li>
                    135:         </ul>
                    136:     </li>
                    137:     <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with
                    138:     IMaCh. At the end of the program, IMaCh uses gnuplot to produce
                    139:     the graphs, then you can open your browser to read the main .htm
                    140:     file with all results and graphs. If gnuplot is not installed or
                    141:     not in your path, you have to run gnuplot on the ".gp" source file
                    142:     generated by imach. Using wgnuplot you have to "open" it. </li>
                    143:     <li>Read the file README.txt
                    144: </ul>
                    145: 
                    146: <br>
1.15    ! brouard   147: Imach version 0.98nX of August 2014 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
        !           148: <a href="imach-0.98nX-1-setup.exe">
        !           149: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.98nX-1-setup.exe (compiled with
        !           150: free Visual Studio compiler 2010 32 bits)</a>. If MSVCR100.dll is
        !           151: missing on your windows system (32 or 64 bits) please download the
        !           152: library from Microsoft.com by installing
        !           153: the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328">32Bit:
        !           154: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)</a>. The
        !           155: IMaCh program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you
        !           156: want (usually in Program Files). Please check the md5sum which is
        !           157: f801319e8dbc852296e4fba13029c7e0 imach-0.98nX-1-setup.exe
        !           158: 
        !           159: <br>After installation a right click on a .imach file lets edit with
        !           160: the notepad text editor which is less useful than other text editor
        !           161: like workpad but exists on most Windows installation.  <br> For people
        !           162: who are not allowed to modify the registry of their Windows
        !           163: installation here is a second
        !           164: setup <a href="imach-0.98nX-1-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.98nX-1-noreg-setup.exe</a>.
1.14      brouard   165: <br>
1.15    ! brouard   166: 766443598a014e8d9cf5cbaccab99e0d imach-0.98nX-1-noreg-setup.exe
        !           167: <p> The executable for Windows cross-compiled on OS/X with
        !           168: i386-mingw32-gcc doesn't produce efficient binary compared to native
        !           169: Visual Studio 2010 (used here). imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe is compiled
        !           170: with i386-mingw32-gcc .
1.14      brouard   171: 
                    172: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a>
                    173: <h3>On Mac OS/X Leopard  (August 2014)</h3>
                    174: 
                    175: IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as
                    176: XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p>
                    177: 
                    178: It take a litle more time to get version of Gnuplot 4.6.5+ for Mac OS/X
                    179: and to compile it on a MaC.  Currently graphs are output as png
                    180: files. We will probably moved to svg because the svg format is
                    181: scalable and thus figures are easier to improve and insert in other documents.
                    182: 
                    183: 
                    184: <p>
                    185: You can download a dmg file
1.15    ! brouard   186:        at <a href="imach0.98nX.dmg">imach0.98nX.dmg</a> (md5sum
        !           187:        ff9d2389abc2d3ce106203d89fd096d4). Like on Windows, two
1.14      brouard   188:        sub-directories are created
                    189:       <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you
                    190:       will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and
                    191:       <tt>gnuplot</tt>. 
                    192: 
                    193: <p>
                    194: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> application and IMaCh will be
                    195: launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter
                    196: a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A parameter file is a text file with an
                    197: extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension
                    198: if you want.  Among the parameters required, a data file name has to
                    199: be entered. It can be a relative file name
                    200: like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new finder you
                    201: can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh Window that
                    202: you just created.
                    203: <p>
                    204: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
                    205: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for
                    206: edit (with your browser) or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit.
                    207: 
                    208: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
                    209:       or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
                    210:       <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
                    211:       file has the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
                    212:       .imach is changed to .html.
                    213: 
                    214: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is
                    215: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of
1.15    ! brouard   216: gnuplot is more recent than version 4.6.5 . I haven't had time to make
1.14      brouard   217: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL
                    218: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions
                    219: are similar to the Mac OS/X version.
1.15    ! brouard   220: <p>
        !           221: <font color="#FF0000" size="3"><tt>New (August 2014)</tt></font> You
        !           222: can download a binary tar file for respectively a 32 bits or 64 bits
        !           223: Linux box:<p>
        !           224: cf9784f1d3f464b2f0c7ddf2fea84062 <a href="imach-Linux-0.98nX-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2">imach-Linux-0.98nX-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2</a><p>
        !           225: or
        !           226: 0974bcf30596f94f97d0e80acaf5a1bb <a href="imach-Linux-0.98nX-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz2">imach-Linux-0.98nX-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz2</a> <p>
        !           227: The binaries have been crosscompiled with gcc on my OS/X Mac.  Each
        !           228: binary contains two directories <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html/doc</tt>
        !           229: . In the bin subdirectory you will find the <tt>imach</tt> executable
        !           230: and in <tt>html/doc</tt> the <tt>biaspar.imach</tt> test parameter
        !           231: file and its corresponding data file <tt>data1.txt</tt>. In order to
        !           232: run the test the command is <tt>./bin/imach
        !           233: ./html/doc/biaspar.imach</tt> <p>
        !           234:       <tt>gnuplot</tt> should be installed otherwise at the end of the
        !           235:       run (optimization and calculations last at least 7 minutes on
        !           236:       today most efficient hardwares) the command <tt>gnuplot
        !           237:       biaspar.gp</tt> will fail. If successful, typing <tt>e</tt> will
        !           238:       open <tt>biaspar.htm</tt> with your browser and all the results
        !           239:       including graphs generated by gnuplot will appear. Please
        !           240:       subscribe to the mailing
        !           241:       list <tt>imach-users@listes.ined.fr</tt> for comments and
        !           242:       reports on the performance (see the Performance section of
        !           243:       the <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki">wiki</a>).
        !           244: 
1.14      brouard   245: 
                    246: <p><a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
                    247: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
                    248: 
                    249: <p>This software have been partly granted
                    250: by <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted
                    251: action from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by
                    252: the French Institute on Longevity. In January 2014, it has been
                    253: granted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
                    254: (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 25293121. 
                    255: <p>
                    256: Our work is copyrighted as a GNU software product, i.e. program and
                    257: software can be distributed freely for non commercial use, but
                    258: actually some sources are not widely distributed today because they
                    259: borrow some codes from the book "Numerical Recipes in C" which is
                    260: copyrighted. If you are an owner of theses sources you can get our
                    261: sources by asking us with a simple justification (name, email,
                    262: Institute) <a href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    263: </p>
                    264: 
                    265: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
                    266: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
                    267: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
                    268: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
                    269: 
                    270: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
                    271: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a><br>
                    272: 
                    273: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users.  You can
                    274: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
                    275: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    276: (and unsubscribe with <a
                    277: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    278: </p>
                    279: 
                    280: <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2>
                    281: 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.
                    282: 
                    283: <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>.
                    284: 
                    285: <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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