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Descriptors of environmental distribution, structure, properties and effects of chemicals are discussed. It is stressed that the quality of quantitative structure—activity correlations depends on the information content of the descriptors.
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Zitko, V. (1984). Data Evaluation in the Development of QSAR. In: Kaiser, K.L.E. (eds) QSAR in Environmental Toxicology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6415-0_22
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