Predicting the predictability: A unified approach to the applicability domain problem of qsar models

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1762-1776

  Dragos, Horvath ^a   Gilles, Marcou ^a   Alexandre, Varnek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MOLECULAR GRAPHICS; MOLECULES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CHEMICAL SPACE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DOMAIN PROBLEMS; PREDICTION VARIANCE; PROPERTY PREDICTIONS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS; STATISTICAL TOOLS; UNIFIED APPROACH;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 68149160790     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci9000579     Document Type: Article

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