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Table 2 Mean Absolute Error (MAE) – calculated by 10-fold cross-validation – in the prediction of log Vss by each regression method, in model selection dataset (with 402 compounds)

From: Predicting volume of distribution with decision tree-based regression methods using predicted tissue:plasma partition coefficients

Regression method

MAE (logVss)

Descriptor set includes predicted log K t:p ’s

Descriptor set without predicted log K t:p ’s

Descriptor set selected by genetic CFS

M5P-4

0.3891

0.3698

0.3739

M5P-6

0.3823

0.3665

0.4003

M5P-8

0.4715

0.3616

0.3847

M5P-10

0.4751

0.3658

0.3763

M5P-RegTree

0.3689

0.3772

0.3782

REPTree

0.3824

0.4330

0.3974

M5Rules

0.3911

0.3843

0.3836

Bagging (M5P)

0.3713

0.3371

0.3509