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1: <html> 2: 3: <head> 4: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 5: content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 6: <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> 7: <title>Computing Health Expectancies using IMaCh</title> 8:  9: </head> 10: 11: <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 12: 13: <hr size="3" color="#EC5E5E"> 14: 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 2005</strong></font></p> 29: 30: <hr size="3" color="#EC5E5E"> 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>Download and instructions for installation</strong></font></h2> 57: 58: <h3>On Windows (win9X, 2000, XP)</h3> 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. 81: </p> 82: 83: <ul> 84: <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.97b-setup.exe</strong></font> 85: and execute it .</li> 86: <li>Different sub-directories are created: 87: <ul> 88: <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document 89: is <a href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a> .</li> 90: <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4" 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> 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>. 106: </ul> 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> 115: <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li> 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: 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: 135: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a> 136: <h3>On Mac OS/X Panther only (october 2005)</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 (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 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. 150: 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>. 151: 152: If X11 is already installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD 153: or you can download it from the WEB), then you can do <tt>set ter 154: X11</tt> and <tt>plot sin(x)</tt> to get a nice sin curve on an X11 155: window of your Mac. 156: 157: <br> Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't 158: need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only 159: to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will 160: be viewed by your browser.<br> 161: 162: You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by 163: ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs 164: directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them 165: with a browser, 166: 167: <p> 168: You can download a .pkg.pax file at <a 169: href="imach097b.pkg.pax">imach097b.pkg.pax</a>. Stuffit 170: Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just 171: clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local 172: directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created 173: <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you 174: will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and 175: <tt>gnuplot</tt>. 176: <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>. 177: 178: <p> 179: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> and IMaCh will be launched in a 180: Terminal window, asking you to enter a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A 181: parameter file is text file with an extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you 182: can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among the parameters 183: required, a data file name has to be entered. It can be a relative 184: file name like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new 185: finder you can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh 186: Window that you just created. 187: <p> 188: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to 189: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for 190: edit or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. The edit command might not work 191: on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which 192: browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment 193: doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too. 194: 195: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder 196: or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the 197: <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html 198: file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension 199: .imach is changed to .html. 200: 201: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is 202: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of 203: gnuplot is more recent than version 0.38i . I haven't had time to make 204: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL 205: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions 206: are similar to the Mac OS/X version. A binary rpm will be given as 207: soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program 208: will be GPL licensed. 209: 210: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click 211: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p> 212: 213: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a 214: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action 215: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the 216: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU 217: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely 218: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely 219: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book 220: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of 221: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple 222: justification (name, email, Institute) <a 223: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a> 224: </p> 225: 226: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS 227: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have 228: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with 229: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library. 230: 231: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a 232: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br> 233: </p> 234: 235: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can 236: subscribe by sending a mail to <a 237: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a> 238: (and unsubscribe with <a 239: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a> 240: </p> 241: 242: <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2> 243: 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. 244: 245: <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>. 246: 247: <p><a href="wiki"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Access to the new (August 2005) IMaCh Wiki</font></a></p> 248: 249: 250: 251: 252: <br>$Id: index.htm,v 1.10 2006/02/09 15:35:26 lievre Exp $<br> 253:  277: </body> 278: </html> 279: