Abstract
A quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) study was conducted to predict the adsorption coefficients of some pesticides. The successive projection algorithm feature selection (SPA) strategy was used as descriptor selection and model development method. Modeling of the relationship between selected molecular descriptors and adsorption coefficient data was achieved by linear (multiple linear regression; MLR) and nonlinear (artificial neural network; ANN) methods. The QSPR models were validated by cross-validation as well as application of the models to predict the K OC of external set compounds, which did not contribute to model development steps. Both linear and nonlinear methods provided accurate predictions, although more accurate results were obtained by the ANN model. The root-mean-square errors of test set obtained by MLR and ANN models were 0.3705 and 0.2888, respectively.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 7153-7158 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 12 2009 |
Keywords
- Artificial neural network
- Quantitative structure-activity relationship
- Soil sorption coefficients
- Successive projection algorithm
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Chemistry(all)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)