# $Id: biaspar.imach,v 1.4 2002/03/13 17:28:11 brouard Exp $ Imach version 0.8 2002, INED-EUROREVES 
title=1st_example datafile=data1.txt lastobs=8600 firstpass=1 lastpass=4
ftol=1.000000e-008 stepm=1 ncovcol=2 nlstate=2 ndeath=1 maxwav=4 mle=1 weight=0
model=.
# Parameters (nlstate+ndeath-1)*nlstate*ncovmodel a12*1 + b12 * age + ...
12 0. 0.
13 0. 0.
21 0. 0.
23 0. 0.
# Scales (for hessian or gradient estimation)
12 0. 0. 
13 0. 0. 
21 0. 0. 
23 0. 0. 
# covariance matrix 
# 121 Var(a12) 
# 122 Cov(b12,a12)  Var(b12) 
#       ...
# 232 Cov(b23,a12)  Cov(b23,b12) ... Var (b23)
121 0.
122 0. 0.
131 0. 0. 0. 
132 0. 0. 0. 0. 
211 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 
212 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 
231 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 
232 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0.
# agemin agemax for life expectancy, bage fage (if mle==0 ie no data nor Max likelihood).
agemin=70 agemax=95 bage=65 fage=95
# Observed prevalence period
begin-prev-date=1/1/1984 end-prev-date=1/6/1988
# Health expectancies computed from stationary prevalence (pop_based=0) or population based (1)
pop_based=0
# Prevalence forecasting
starting-proj-date=1/1/1989 final-proj-date=1/1/1990 mov_average=0
# Population forecasting
popforecast=1 popfile=pyram.txt popfiledate=1/1/1989 last-popfiledate=1/1/1992