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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>June 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>New installation method</strong></font></h2>
57:
58: <p> Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which
59: had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version
60: 0.97b IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup). Both
61: executables <tt>imach.exe</tt> and <tt>gnuplot.exe</tt> (the grapher
62: that we are using) have to be on the same directory.
63:
64: <br> In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach
65: extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking
66: on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with
67: the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).<br>
68:
69: But we discovered that on some computers, people are not allowed
70: to modify the windows registry and need to have Administrator privileges.
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72: <br>
73: Thus we built two windows installer: a standard setup which will install
74: the progam (usually in <tt>\Program Files\imach</tt> and will
75: modify the registry to associate <tt>.imach</tt> extension to notepad and imach, and a
76: second which will not alter the registry. With this second installer you
77: will be able to install the programs in your home directory and
78: run it by clicking on the imach.exe icon. But you won't be able
79: to use the facility of the right clicking.
80: </p>
81:
82: <ul>
83: <li>Download latest <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach-0.97b-setup.exe</strong></font>
84: and execute it .</li>
85: <li>Different sub-directories are created:
86: <ul>
87: <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
88: is <a href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a> .</li>
89: <ul> Here are also two data files:<font size="4"
90: face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
91: <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
92: which is the main data file on which the
93: program has been run as the example in
94: the main documentation.</li>
95: <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
96: smaller data file which you can use for
97: your own trial.</li>
98: </ul>
99: </ul>
100: <li>bin: <ul> <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font>
101: the executable for Windows 95/98/NT compiled with gcc from
102: cygwin.</li> <li> gnuplot, the grapher use by IMaCh. Its
103: reference manual and sources can be accessed from <a
104: href="http://www.gnuplot.info/">http://www.gnuplot.info/</a>.
105: </ul>
106: </li>
107: <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
108: program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail <a
109: href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr">mailto:brouard@ined.fr</a>
110: and <a href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr">mailto:lievre@ined.fr</a>
111: .</li>
112: </ul>
113: </li>
114: <li>Right click on the .imach to either edit it or execute it with Imach.</li>
115: <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
116: href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
117: </ul>
118:
119: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
120: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
121:
122: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
123: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted action
124: from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the
125: French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU
126: software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely
127: for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely
128: distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book
129: "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of
130: theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple
131: justification (name, email, Institute) <a
132: href="mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr">mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr</a>
133: </p>
134:
135: <p>Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS
136: server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have
137: replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with
138: equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
139:
140: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
141: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
142: Imach version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in zip file <a
143: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip</a>
144: <br> Imach version 0.64 May 2001 can be downloaded in zip file <a
145: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip</a>
146: <br>
147: Imach version 0.8 March 2002 can be downloaded in zip file <a
148: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip</a>
149: <br>
150: Imach version 0.8a May 2002 can be downloaded in zip file <a
151: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip">
152: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip</a>
153: <br>
154: Imach version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file <a
155: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip">
156: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip</a>
157:
158: <br>
159: Imach version 0.97b of June 21 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
160: <a href=imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe">
161: http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe</a>. The IMaCh
162: program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
163: (usually in Program Files). We made some errors in the new setup and
164: some erlier versions did not work. Please check the md5sum which is
165: 3cb42bf71396d531d4bc3d42fee46a52 imach-0.97b-2-setup.exe
166:
167: <br>We also changed the wordpad editor to notepad which is less useful
168: but exists on most Windows installation. <br> For people who are not
169: allowed to modify the registry of their Windows installation here is a
170: second setup <a
171: href="imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe">imach-0.97b-2-noreg-setup.exe</a>.
172: </p>
173:
174: <p> There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can
175: subscribe by sending a mail to <a
176: href=mailto:imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
177: (and unsubscribe with <a
178: href=mailto:imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr>imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr</a>
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