Beginner--getting rid of dot products with zero
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- Subject: [mg66818] Beginner--getting rid of dot products with zero
- From: smanky at gmx.de
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:31:27 -0400 (EDT)
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hello,
i am economics student... not very familiar with mathematica yet.
i am currently using mathematica to verify derivatives i need in another system's code. and, i am stuck with a not so uncommon problem. however, browsing forums i haven't found the solution for my particular version of the problem yet.
when taking partial derivatives of this expression:
L[k1_, k2_, alpha_, beta_ ] = Total[Log[q[k1, k2]]] + Total[(y - alpha - beta*q[k1, k2])^2/q[k1, k2]];
e.g.
∂\_alpha\ L[k1, \ k2, \ alpha, \ beta]
the results include terms like e.g.
x.{0,0,0} or 0.{, ,}
how can i get rid of those? one way is probably by using a replace rule, but this seems rather cumbersome, beside the mere fact that i didn't even get this to work, yet. Simplify, or FullSimplify don't help either.
any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
cheers,
~stephan
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