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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: 
1.4       brouard    28: <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>June 2004</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
                     61: 0.97b IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup).  Both
                     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>
1.3       brouard    84:     <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.97b-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
                    109:                 program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail <a
                    110:                 href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr">mailto:brouard@ined.fr</a>
                    111:                 and <a href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr">mailto:lievre@ined.fr</a>
                    112:                 .</li>
                    113:         </ul>
                    114:     </li>
1.2       brouard   115:     <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li>
1.1       brouard   116:     <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
                    117:         href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
                    118: </ul>
                    119: 
1.6       brouard   120: <br>
                    121: Imach version 0.97b of June 21 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
                    122: <a href=imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe">
                    123: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
                    124: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
                    125: (usually in Program Files).  We made some errors in the new setup and
                    126: some erlier versions did not work. Please check the md5sum which is
                    127: 3cb42bf71396d531d4bc3d42fee46a52 imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe 
                    128: 
                    129: <br>We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful
                    130: but exists on most Windows installation.  <br> For people who are not
                    131: allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a
                    132: second setup <a
                    133: href="imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe</a>.
                    134: 
1.7       brouard   135: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a>
1.6       brouard   136: <h3>On Mac OS/X</h3>
                    137: 
                    138: IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as
                    139: XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p>
                    140: 
                    141: It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac
                    142: OS/X and to compile it on a MaC. The main problem resides in finding
                    143: the png library. Gif images are patented now and the replacement is
                    144: png, but the development of the png library is growing on its own and
                    145: you just have to find on Google where it is hosted now.
                    146: 
                    147: <br>
                    148: Gnuplot can be easily compiled on a MaC, but I don't know yet (July
                    149: 2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot. For sure if
                    150: X11 is installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD
                    151: or you can download it from the WEB), the you can do <tt>set ter
                    152: X11</tt> and <tt>plot sin(x)</tt> to get a nice sin curve on an X11
                    153: window of your Mac.
                    154: 
                    155: <br> Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't
                    156: need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only
                    157: to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will
                    158: be viewed by your browser.<br>
                    159: 
                    160: You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by
                    161: ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs
                    162: directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them
                    163: with a browser,
                    164: 
                    165: <p>
1.7       brouard   166: You can download a .pkg.pax file at <a
1.6       brouard   167:        href="imach097b.pkg.pax">imach097b.pkg.pax</a>. Stuffit
1.7       brouard   168:       Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just
                    169:       clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local
                    170:       directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created
1.6       brouard   171:       <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you
                    172:       will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and
                    173:       <tt>gnuplot</tt>. 
                    174: 
                    175: <p>
                    176: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> and IMaCh will be launched in a
                    177:       terminal window, asking you to enter a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A
                    178:       parameter file is text file with an extension <tt>.imach</tt>
                    179:       (but you can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among
                    180:       the parameters required, a data file name has to be entered. It
                    181:       can be a relative file name like
                    182:       <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. It might also work if you use the
                    183:       Windows backslash "<tt>\</tt>" syntax.
                    184: <p>
                    185: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
1.7       brouard   186:       disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for
1.6       brouard   187:       edit or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. The edit command might not work
                    188:       on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which
                    189:       browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment
                    190:       doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too.
                    191: 
                    192: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
                    193:       or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
                    194:       <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
                    195:       file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
                    196:       .imach is changed to .html.
                    197: 
1.7       brouard   198: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is
                    199: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of
                    200: gnuplot is more recent than version 0.38i . I haven't had time to make
                    201: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL
                    202: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions
                    203: are similar to the Mac OS/X version. A binary rpm will be given as
1.8     ! brouard   204: soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program
        !           205: will be GPL licensed.
1.6       brouard   206: 
1.1       brouard   207: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
                    208: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
                    209: 
                    210: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
1.2       brouard   211: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
                    212: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
                    213: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
                    214: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
                    215: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
                    216: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
                    217: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
                    218: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
                    219: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
                    220: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    221: </p>
1.1       brouard   222: 
1.2       brouard   223: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
                    224: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
                    225: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
                    226: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
1.1       brouard   227: 
                    228: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
                    229: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
                    230: </p>
                    231: 
1.5       brouard   232: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users.  You can
1.2       brouard   233: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
                    234: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
                    235: (and unsubscribe with <a
                    236: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
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