To whom It May Concern, I am working on a dimensional reduction problem using Smoothly Clipped Asolute Deviation (SCAD) Penalty according to "Variable Selection via Nonconcave Penalized Likelihood and its Oracle Properties, J.Fan and R. Li, JASA, Dec 2001". I found an R package named *"ncvreg*" which is capable to perform this variable selection procedure. I noctice, in function*ncvreg(x, y), * an intercept is automatically added to the model fitting step. I wonder, is there anyway to remove the intercept, something similar to *"lars()"*where you can specify the option and let *"intercept=FALSE".* Or, does intercept has to be included for SCAD penalized regression? Could someone give a clue? Thanks, -Jiayi -- Jiayi Hou Ph.D Candidate Department of Biostatistics School of Medicine Virginia Commonwealth University Tel:(804)-828-2879(office) (804)-274-8757(cell) [[alternative HTML version deleted]]