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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> <title>Computing Health Expectancies using IMaCh</title>  </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <hr size="3" color="#EC5E5E"> <h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Computing Health Expectancies using IMaCh</font></h1> <h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="5">(a Maximum Likelihood Computer Program using Interpolation of Markov Chains)</font></h1> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><img src="doc/logo-ined.gif" border="0" width="151" height="76"></a><img src="doc/euroreves2.gif" width="151" height="75"></p> <h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><font color="#00006A">INED</font></a><font color="#00006A"> and </font><a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">EUROREVES</font></a></h3> <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>July 2017</strong></font></p> <hr size="3" color="#EC5E5E"> <h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Authors of the program: </font><a href="http://sauvy.ined.fr/~brouard"><font color="#00006A">Nicolas Brouard</font></a><font color="#00006A">, senior researcher at the </font><a href="http://www.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques</font></a><font color="#00006A"> (INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology Research Unit" </font></h4> <h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">with the collaboration of Agnès Lièvre (former PHD student at INED) until 2007</font></h4> <h4><font color="#00006A">Contribution to the mathematics: C. R. Heathcote </font><font color="#00006A" size="2">(Australian National University, Canberra).</font></h4> <h4><font color="#00006A">Contact: Nicolas Brouard (</font><a href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr"><font color="#00006A"><i>brouard@ined.fr</i></font></a><font color="#00006A">) </font></h4> <p> Main publication concerning the method is <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713644739>Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies from Cross-longitudinal surveys. <em>Mathematical Population Studies</em>.- 10(4), pp. 211-248. DOI 10.1080/713644739</a> </p> <h2><font color="#EC5E5E"><strong>Download and instructions for installation</strong></font></h2> <h3> Current versions July 2017 </h3> <ul> <li>On Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10): 0.99r14</li> <li>On MacOS/X Leopard: 0.99r14</li> <li>On Linux, ask for the CVS version </li> </ul> The grapher that IMaCh uses is gnuplot from <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>. Gnuplot has evolved since version IMaCh 0.98k and therefore you need at least Gnuplot 5. Otherwise you need to adapt the .gp file produced in order to run with your old gnuplot. With the installer provided for OS/X and Windows, a recent gnuplot binary is provided and will be installed on the same directory that the IMaCh binary. It is better to use your own Gnuplot installation and IMaCh will test the command '''gnuplot''' but if the binary in not in your path, it will make a error but will use the binary provided by the installers. Using recent gnuplot installations, there is usually a possibility to add the gnuplot binary in your path. <h3>On Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10)</h3> <p> Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version 0.98d and above IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup 5.5.5). <br> In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).<br> <br> You need to have the Administrator privileges to install the software. We don't propose anymore an installation which does not alter registry because we think that you all have access, even temporarly, to Administrator privileges (usally by right clicking the .exe you can choose "Install with Administrators privileges". </p> <ul> <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.99r14-ilc-setup.exe</strong></font> and execute it .</li> <li> Gnuplot is installed by default on Windows. But if you are using another Operating system: <ul> <li> Download <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>gnuplot</strong></font> 5 at <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a> ; at the end of the install it is asked if you want to have the gnuplot binary in your path, say yes.</li> </ul> <li>Different sub-directories are created: <ul> <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document is <a href="wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a> .</li> <ul> Here are also two data files (which are unfortunately the best examples for recent features of IMaCh):<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul> <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font> which is the main data file on which the program has been run as the example in the main documentation.</li> <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a smaller data file which you can use for your own trial.</li> </ul> </ul> <li>bin: <ul> <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font></li> <li> gnuplot, the grapher used by IMaCh. Its reference manual and sources can be accessed from <a href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>. </ul> </li> <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail brouard at ined pointfr .</li> </ul> </li> <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with IMaCh. At the end of the program, IMaCh uses gnuplot to produce the graphs, then you can open your browser to read the main .htm file with all results and graphs. If gnuplot is not installed or not in your path, you have to run gnuplot on the ".gp" source file generated by imach. Using wgnuplot you have to "open" it. </li> <li>Read the file README.txt </ul> <br> Imach version 0.99r14 of July 2017 can be <a href="#Download">downloaded below</a> as a setup.exe file imach-0.99?-#-setup.exe. The ? corresponds to a version number while the # corresponds to same program but compiled differently. <br> After having tested crosscompilations from a Unix box we moved to native versions compiled with Visual Studio Express compiler 2013 32 and 64bit bits)</a> and, better, Intel C/C++ compiler from the package <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/c-compilers">Intel® Parallel Studio 2015</a> <ul> <li> On Windows 64bits, this Intel Compiler gives clearly quicker results because public domain C compilers, gcc, are not optimized for 64 bits OS yet. <li> On OS/X we use the native Apple C compiler derived from gcc because it gives better results. <li> On Linux, we use standard gcc. </ul>         The IMaCh program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory of your choice (usually in Program or Program Files). Please check the corresponding md5sum, if the download is corrupted. <br>After installation, a right click on a .imach file lets you edit with the notepad text editor (which is less useful than other text editor like workpad but which have the advantage to be installed on any Windows). <br>     <p><a href="oldversions.html">Very old (historical) Windows versions are accessible here.</a> <h3>On Mac OS/X Lion and higher (July 2017)</h3> IMaCh can be easily compiled with gcc on MacIntosh as soon as XCode (free download from Apple) is intalled on your MaCIntosh.<p> It take a litle more time to get version of Gnuplot 5+ for Mac OS/X and to compile it on a MaC. Currently graphs are output as svg because the svg format is scalable and thus figures are easier to improve and to insert in other documents. Sometimes the svg file is to big and is replaced by a png binary file. But you can get any other format with gnuplot (for example, on Emacs with gnuplot-mode, just edit the .gp file, send the first "cd " line to change to current directory, move to corresponding line of the plot, send the plot line to gnuplot, visualize on the screen, change the terminal as well as plot file names). <p> You can <a href="#Download">download below</a> a dmg file, for example imach0.99X.dmg and install it. Like on Windows, two sub-directories are created <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you will find two executables <tt>imach</tt> itself and <tt>gnuplot</tt>. With recent versions, this tree is embedded in an Application. <p> You need to click on <tt>imach</tt> application and IMaCh will be launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter the name of a <tt>parameter</tt> file. A parameter file is a text file with an extension <tt>.imach</tt> (but you can use a <tt>.txt</tt> extension if you want. Among the parameters required, a data file name has to be entered. It can be a relative file name like <tt>../../data/data1.txt</tt>. <br> If you open a new finder you can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh Window that you just created. <p> At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "<tt>e</tt>" for editing/viewing the results (with your browser) or "<tt>q</tt>" for quit. <br> You can use the finder or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the main <tt>.html</tt> (or .htm) file created. The name of this main html file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension .imach is changed to .html. If you slightly change the parameters, you just have to give another name and the new results will not override the former. <h3>On Linux</h3> There are various versions of Linux, gnuplot is distributed on most distributions. Just verify that your version of gnuplot is version 5+ . If I haven't had time to make a rpm yet, just ask us for the CVS tree location (not completely GPL today), and compile the sources. Remarks concerning the Linux versions are similar to the Mac OS/X version. <p> <font color="#FF0000" size="3"><tt>New (July 2017)</tt></font> You can <a href="#Download">download below</a> a binary rpm file for a 64 bits Linux, for example: imach-0.99r14-1.x86-64.rpm <p> The Windows binaries have been compiled with native Intel Compiler on my OS/X Mac using Virtual Box and a Windows 8. Each binary contains two directories <tt>bin</tt> and <tt>html/doc</tt> . In the bin subdirectory you will find the <tt>imach</tt> executable and in <tt>html/doc</tt> the <tt>biaspar.imach</tt> test parameter file and its corresponding data file <tt>data1.txt</tt>. In order to run the test the command is <tt>./bin/imach ./html/doc/biaspar.imach</tt> <p> <tt>gnuplot</tt> should be installed otherwise at the end of the run (optimization and calculations last at least 7 minutes on today most efficient hardwares) the command <tt>gnuplot biaspar.gp</tt> will fail. If successful, typing <tt>e</tt> will open <tt>biaspar.htm</tt> with your browser and all the results including graphs generated by gnuplot will appear. <p> Differences between efficiency of binary versions, related to former errors in the likelihood optimizations algorithms, have be discussed at <a href="http://reves.site.ined.fr/en/REVES_meetings/2015%2C-reves-meeting-in-singapour/">REVES 2015 meeting in Singapore</a>. </ul> <TABLE FRAME=VOID CELLSPACING=0 COLS=7 RULES=NONE BORDER=0> <COLGROUP><COL WIDTH=73><COL WIDTH=79><COL WIDTH=56><COL WIDTH=56><COL WIDTH=146><COL WIDTH=243><COL WIDTH=245></COLGROUP> <TBODY> <TR> <TD STYLE="border-top: 1px solid #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000" WIDTH=73 HEIGHT=38 ALIGN=LEFT>OS </TD> <TD STYLE="border-top: 1px solid #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000" WIDTH=79 ALIGN=LEFT>OS subtype</TD> <TD STYLE="border-top: 1px solid #000000; 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We used some codes from the first book "Numerical Recipes in C" (Press et al, 1992) which is copyrighted. Today, the code of the optimization programme has been so altered and many bugs have been fixed, see <a href="singapore-Brouard-Heathcote-2015.pdf">communication</a> at the 2015 REVES meeting in Singapore) that we consider that we are only in debt of the algorithm which has been published. If you want to get our sources, please ask us with a simple justification (name, email, Institute) <a href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a> </p> <p>Latest documentation can be accessed on the wiki at <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation</a><br> <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can subscribe 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>) for help, comments and reports on the performance (see the Performance section of the <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki">wiki</a>). Archives can be accessed at <a href="https://listes.ined.fr/arc/imach-users">https://listes.ined.fr/arc/imach-users</a> <p> If you ask for help, it is usually easier to send the parameter file, the .log file as well as some records of the datafile. <h2>IMaCh Wiki</h2> 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. <p> Wikis are a 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>. <p><a href="wiki"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Access to the IMaCh Wiki</font></a></p>. Please ask for a username and password. <br>$Id: index.htm,v 1.20 2017/06/29 11:44:20 brouard Exp $<br>  </body> </html>