quantitative structure-activity relationships

quantitative structure-activity relationships

[′kwän·ə‚tād·iv ¦strək·chər ak¦tiv·əd·ē ri′lā·shən‚ships] (biochemistry) The establishment of statistical correlations between the potencies of a series of structurally related compounds and one or more quantitative structural parameters, such as lipophilicity, polarity, and molecular size, by using multilinear regression analysis.