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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>
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                     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>February 2004</strong></font></p>
                     29: 
                     30: <hr size="3" color="#EC5E5E">
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                     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: 
                     56: <h2><font color="#EC5E5E"><strong>Installation</strong></font></h2>
                     57: 
                     58: <p>Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to
1.2       brouard    59: have a separate directory for imach. A classical installation for Windows is on Program Files\imach <br>
1.1       brouard    60: </p>
                     61: 
                     62: <ul>
1.3     ! brouard    63:     <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.97b-setup.exe</strong></font>
1.2       brouard    64:         and execute it .</li>
                     65:     <li>Different sub-directories are created:
                     66:           <ul>
1.1       brouard    67:             <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
                     68:                 is <a href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a> .</li>
1.2       brouard    69:                 <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4"
1.1       brouard    70:                 face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
                     71:                     <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
                     72:                         which is the main data file on which the
                     73:                         program has been run as the example in
                     74:                         the main documentation.</li>
                     75:                     <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
                     76:                         smaller data file which you can use for
                     77:                         your own trial.</li>
                     78:                 </ul>
1.2       brouard    79:             <li>bin: <ul>
                     80:                     <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font> the
                     81:                         executable for Windows 95/98/NT compiled
                     82:                         with gcc from cygwin.</li>
                     83:                     <li> gnuplot, the grapher use by IMaCh and described <a
                     84:                         href="#gp37mgw">next</a> </li>
                     85:                 </ul>
1.1       brouard    86:             </li>
                     87:             <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
                     88:                 program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail <a
                     89:                 href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr">mailto:brouard@ined.fr</a>
                     90:                 and <a href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr">mailto:lievre@ined.fr</a>
                     91:                 .</li>
                     92:             <li><a name="gp37mgw">gp37mgw</a>: This is the
                     93:                 directory of the gnuplot software. Gnuplot for
                     94:                 Unix or Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP can be accessed freely
                     95:                 with its reference manual from <a
                     96:                 href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>.
                     97:                 The latest version, recently ported to windows,
                     98:                 has been included in imach.zip.</li>
                     99:         </ul>
                    100:     </li>
1.2       brouard   101:     <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li>
1.1       brouard   102:     <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
                    103:         href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
                    104: </ul>
                    105: 
                    106: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
                    107: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
                    108: 
                    109: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
1.2       brouard   110: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
                    111: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
                    112: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
                    113: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
                    114: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
                    115: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
                    116: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
                    117: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
                    118: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
                    119: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    120: </p>
1.1       brouard   121: 
1.2       brouard   122: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
                    123: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
                    124: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
                    125: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
1.1       brouard   126: 
                    127: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
                    128: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
1.2       brouard   129: Imach version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in zip file <a
                    130: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip</a>
                    131: <br> Imach version 0.64 May 2001 can be downloaded in zip file <a
1.1       brouard   132: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip</a>
                    133: <br>
                    134: Imach version 0.8 March 2002 can be downloaded in zip file <a
                    135: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip</a>
                    136: <br>
                    137: Imach version 0.8a May 2002 can be downloaded in zip file <a
                    138: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip">
                    139: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip</a>
                    140: <br>
1.2       brouard   141: Imach version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file <a
1.1       brouard   142: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip">
                    143: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip</a>
                    144: 
1.2       brouard   145: <br>
                    146: Imach version 0.97b of June 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
                    147: <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-setup.exe">
                    148: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
                    149: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
                    150: (usually in Program Files).
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                    152: 
1.2       brouard   153: <p> We set up a public mailing list of IMaCh's users.  You can
                    154: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
                    155: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    156: (and unsubscribe with <a
                    157: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
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