On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gordon Hughes wrote:
 I am close to completing improved versions of my stochastic frontier
 functions, but I am trying to get better starting values.  This leads me to 
 the following problem.  Suppose that a function is given a list X containing 
 the independent variables, which may or may not include the constant (default 
 variable no 0).  How do I create a new list X_one which consists of all of 
 the independent variables other than the constant?
 In effect, this list is the complement of X && const, but I think that I am 
 missing something because I can't see an obvious way of generating it. 
list Z = X || const
list Z -= const
Hope this helps.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti