README.txt

COACH Risk Engine
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COACH Risk Engine is a patient-level simulation model for predicting survival and hospitalization in patients with heart failure.

Requirements
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Java 6.

Versions
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1.0: Initial release.
1.1: Added 2 new measures of recurrent HF hospitalization.
2.0: Upgraded the Java implementation to the final version of the model as published in European Journal of Heart Failure.

Copyright & copying permission
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Copyright 2010-2013 Douwe Postmus

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


Building from source
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To compile COACH Risk Engine from source, the following libraries are required:
- JfreeChart 1.0.14
- Jcommon 1.0.17