Prediction of gastro-intestinal absorption using multivariate adaptive regression splines

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E Deconinck1, Q S Xu, R Put

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Pharmaceutical Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel-VUB, Laarbeeklaan 103, B-1090 Brussels, Belgium.

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
|July 26, 2005
PubMed

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