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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>June 2004</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</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> 166: You can download a .pkg.pax file at <a 167: href="imach097b.pkg.pax">imach097b.pkg.pax</a>. Stuffit 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 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> (but you 179: can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among the parameters 180: required, a data file name has to be entered. It can be a relative 181: file name like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new 182: finder you can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh 183: Window that you just created. 184: <p> 185: At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to 186: disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for 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: 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 204: soon as a src rpm will be given which means that the whole program 205: will be GPL licensed. 206: 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 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> 222: 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. 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: 232: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can 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> 237: </p> 238: <br>$Id: index.htm,v 1.9 2004/07/23 16:07:11 brouard Exp $<br> 239:  260: </body> 261: </html> 262: