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Paul E Blower1, Kevin P Cross.
Abstract
Decision trees are among the most popular of the new statistical learning methods being used in the pharmaceutical industry for predicting quantitative structure-activity relationships. This article reviews applications of decision trees in drug discovery research and extensions to the basic algorithm using hybrid or ensemble methods that improve prediction accuracy.Mesh:
Year: 2006 PMID: 16454756 DOI: 10.2174/156802606775193301
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Top Med Chem ISSN: 1568-0266 Impact factor: 3.295