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                     15: <h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Computing Health
                     16: Expectancies using IMaCh</font></h1>
                     17: 
                     18: <h1 align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="5">(a Maximum
                     19: Likelihood Computer Program using Interpolation of Markov Chains)</font></h1>
                     20: 
                     21: <p align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><img
                     22: src="doc/logo-ined.gif" border="0" width="151" height="76"></a><img
                     23: src="doc/euroreves2.gif" width="151" height="75"></p>
                     24: 
                     25: <h3 align="center"><a href="http://www.ined.fr/"><font
                     26: color="#00006A">INED</font></a><font color="#00006A"> and </font><a
                     27: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">EUROREVES</font></a></h3>
                     28: 
                     29: <p align="center"><font color="#00006A" size="4"><strong>March
                     30: 2000</strong></font></p>
                     31: 
                     32: <hr size="3" color="#EC5E5E">
                     33: 
                     34: <h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">Authors of the program: </font><a
                     35: href="http://sauvy.ined.fr/brouard"><font color="#00006A">Nicolas
                     36: Brouard</font></a><font color="#00006A">, senior researcher at
                     37: the </font><a href="http://www.ined.fr"><font color="#00006A">Institut
                     38: National d'Etudes Démographiques</font></a><font color="#00006A">
                     39: (INED, Paris) in the &quot;Mortality, Health and Epidemiology
                     40: Research Unit&quot; </font></h4>
                     41: 
                     42: <h4 align="center"><font color="#00006A">and Agnès Lièvre</font></h4>
                     43: 
                     44: <h4><font color="#00006A">Contribution to the mathematics: C. R.
                     45: Heathcote </font><font color="#00006A" size="2">(Australian
                     46: National University, Canberra).</font></h4>
                     47: 
                     48: <h4><font color="#00006A">Contact: Agnès Lièvre (</font><a
                     49: href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr"><font color="#00006A"><i>lievre@ined.fr</i></font></a><font
                     50: color="#00006A">) </font></h4>
                     51: 
                     52: <p>&nbsp;</p>
                     53: 
                     54: <h2><font color="#EC5E5E"><strong>Installation</strong></font></h2>
                     55: 
                     56: <p>Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to
                     57: have a separate directory for imach. <br>
                     58: </p>
                     59: 
                     60: <ul>
                     61:     <li>Uncompress the zip file <font size="2" face="Courier New"><strong>imach.zip</strong></font>
                     62:         into an empty directory, <font face="Courier New">imach, </font>for
                     63:         example<font face="Courier New">.</font></li>
                     64:     <li>Different sub-directories are created:<ul>
                     65:             <li>doc: most of the documentation. The main document
                     66:                 is <a href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a> .</li>
                     67:             <li>bin: <ul>
                     68:                     <li><font face="Courier">imach.exe</font> the
                     69:                         executable for Windows 95/98/NT compiled
                     70:                         with gcc from cygwin.</li>
                     71:                     <li>graph.gp: an output file which is used by
                     72:                         the grapher, gnuplot, described <a
                     73:                         href="#gp37mgw">next</a>: </li>
                     74:                 </ul>
                     75:             </li>
                     76:             <li>data: Here are two data files:<font size="4"
                     77:                 face="Times New Roman"> </font><ul>
                     78:                     <li><font face="Courier New">data1.txt</font>
                     79:                         which is the main data file on which the
                     80:                         program has been run as the example in
                     81:                         the main documentation.</li>
                     82:                     <li><font face="Courier New">mydata.txt </font>a
                     83:                         smaller data file which you can use for
                     84:                         your own trial.</li>
                     85:                 </ul>
                     86:             </li>
                     87:             <li>mytry: A sub-directory to try your self. The
                     88:                 imach program outputs its results as <em>text
                     89:                 files </em>(tables) but also <em>images</em>
                     90:                 (actually in gif format) which are obtained in a
                     91:                 second step by running gnuplot (see below) on a
                     92:                 gnuplot command file named 'graph.gp' but also a
                     93:                 single html file 'index.htm' which can be clicked
                     94:                 to summarize your run.</li>
                     95:             <li>src: This subdirectory contains the source of the
                     96:                 program. It can be obtained by asking us by mail <a
                     97:                 href="mailto:brouard@ined.fr">mailto:brouard@ined.fr</a>
                     98:                 and <a href="mailto:lievre@ined.fr">mailto:lievre@ined.fr</a>
                     99:                 .</li>
                    100:             <li><a name="gp37mgw">gp37mgw</a>: This is the
                    101:                 directory of the gnuplot software. Gnuplot for
                    102:                 Unix or Windows 95/98/NT can be accessed freely
                    103:                 with its reference manual from <a
                    104:                 href="http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot/gnuplot.html">http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/gnuplot/</a>.
                    105:                 The latest version, recently ported to windows,
                    106:                 has been included in imach.zip.</li>
                    107:         </ul>
                    108:     </li>
                    109:     <li>Click on the imach.exe icon to open a window and run the
                    110:         program.</li>
                    111:     <li>Read the file README.txt or, better, click on <a
                    112:         href="doc/imach.htm">doc/imach.htm</a></li>
                    113: </ul>
                    114: 
                    115: <p><a href="doc/imach.htm"><font color="#FF0000" size="6">Click
                    116: here to access to the detailed documentation</font></a></p>
                    117: 
                    118: <p>This software have been partly granted by <a
                    119: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES</a>, a concerted
                    120: action from the European Union. It will be copyrighted
                    121: identically to a GNU software product, i.e. program and software
                    122: will be distributed freely for non commercial use. Sources are
                    123: not widely distributed today. You can get them by asking us with
                    124: a simple justification (name, email, institute) <a
                    125: href="mailto:imach@ined.fr">mailto:imach@ined.fr</a> </p>
                    126: 
                    127: <p>Latest documentation can be accessed at <a
                    128: href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach</a><br>
                    129: Imach latest version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in
                    130: zip file <a href="http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip">http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip</a><br>
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