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Summary: New version 0.98nX
Author: Nicolas Brouard

1: <html> 2: 3: <head> 4: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 5: content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 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 2014</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 (former 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: 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: 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 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> 101: <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe</strong></font> 102: and execute it .</li> 103: <li> Download <font size="2" face="Courier 104: New"><strong>gnuplot</strong></font> 4.6.5 105: at <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a> 106: ; at the end of the install it is asked if you want to have the 107: gnuplot binary in your path, say yes.</li> 108: <li>Different sub-directories are created: 109: <ul> 110: <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document 111: is <a href="wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a> .</li> 112: <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4" 113: face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul> 114: <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font> 115: which is the main data file on which the 116: program has been run as the example in 117: the main documentation.</li> 118: <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a 119: smaller data file which you can use for 120: your own trial.</li> 121: </ul> 122: </ul> 123: <li>bin: <ul> <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font> 124: the executable for Windows cross-compiled on OS/X with i386-mingw32-gcc 125: </li> <li> gnuplot, the grapher used by IMaCh. Its 126: reference manual and sources can be accessed from <a 127: href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>. 128: </ul> 129: </li> 130: <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the 131: program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail brouard at ined pointfr 132: .</li> 133: </ul> 134: </li> 135: <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with 136: IMaCh. At the end of the program, IMaCh uses gnuplot to produce 137: the graphs, then you can open your browser to read the main .htm 138: file with all results and graphs. If gnuplot is not installed or 139: not in your path, you have to run gnuplot on the ".gp" source file 140: generated by imach. Using wgnuplot you have to "open" it. </li> 141: <li>Read the file README.txt 142: </ul> 143: 144: <br> 145: Imach version 0.98nV of August 2014 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file 146: <a href="imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe"> 147: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh 148: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want 149: (usually in Program Files). Please check the md5sum which is 150: e5ce179ee1e32d7514be82c0cc19e1fb imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe 151: 152: <br>We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful 153: but exists on most Windows installation. <br> For people who are not 154: allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a 155: second setup <a 156: href="imach-0.98nV-1-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.98nV-1-noreg-setup.exe</a>. 157: <br> 158: 3b477ff19fc4607a32b412e9ad977101 imach-0.98nV-1-noreg-setup.exe 159: 160: 161: <p><a href="oldversions.html">Old Windows versions are accessible here.</a> 162: <h3>On Mac OS/X Leopard (August 2014)</h3> 163: 164: IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc 3.3 on MacIntosh as soon as 165: XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p> 166: 167: It take a litle more time to get version of Gnuplot 4.6.5+ for Mac OS/X 168: and to compile it on a MaC. Currently graphs are output as png 169: files. We will probably moved to svg because the svg format is 170: scalable and thus figures are easier to improve and insert in other documents. 171: 172: 173: <p> 174: You can download a dmg file 175: at <a href="imach0.98nV.dmg">imach0.98nV.dmg</a> (md5sum 176: e2256e6bd4e6f944f17b6be366ce375c). Like on Windows, two 177: sub-directories are created 178: <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you 179: will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and 180: <tt>gnuplot</tt>. 181: 182: <p> 183: You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> application and IMaCh will be 184: launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter 185: a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A parameter file is a text file with an 186: extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension 187: if you want. Among the parameters required, a data file name has to 188: be entered. It can be a relative file name 189: like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new finder you 190: can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh Window that 191: you just created. 192: <p> 193: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to 194: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for 195: edit (with your browser) or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. 196: 197: <br> The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder 198: or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the 199: <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html 200: file has the same name as your parameter file, only the extension 201: .imach is changed to .html. 202: 203: <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is 204: distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of 205: gnuplot is more recent than version 4.6 . I haven't had time to make 206: a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL 207: today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions 208: are similar to the Mac OS/X version. 209: 210: <p><a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation"><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 214: by <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted 215: action from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by 216: the French Institute on Longevity. In January 2014, it has been 217: granted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 218: (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 25293121. 219: <p> 220: Our work is copyrighted as a GNU software product, i.e. program and 221: software can be distributed freely for non commercial use, but 222: actually some sources are not widely distributed today because they 223: borrow some codes from the book "Numerical Recipes in C" which is 224: copyrighted. If you are an owner of theses sources you can get our 225: sources by asking us with a simple justification (name, email, 226: Institute) <a href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a> 227: </p> 228: 229: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS 230: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have 231: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with 232: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library. 233: 234: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a 235: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a><br> 236: 237: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can 238: subscribe by sending a mail to <a 239: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a> 240: (and unsubscribe with <a 241: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a> 242: </p> 243: 244: <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2> 245: 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. 246: 247: <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>. 248: 249: <p><a href="wiki"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Access to the IMaCh Wiki</font></a></p>. Please ask for a username and password. 250: 251: 252: 253: 254: <br>$Id: index.htm,v 1.14 2014/08/28 13:05:37 brouard Exp $<br> 255:  280: </body> 281: </html> 282: