Use of Automatic Relevance Determination in QSAR Studies Using Bayesian Neural Networks

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1423-1430

  Burden, Frank R ^a   Ford, Martyn G ^b   Whitley, David C ^b   Winkler, David A ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

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EID: 0001245212     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci000450a     Document Type: Article

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