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