“…Finally, we used the multiple linear regression (MLR) method to predict the biological activity of the data set as a linear function of the structural properties, which correlates the ordinate y (pIC 50 ) as a dependent variable to the molecular descriptors xi [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ]. The analysis was conducted using SPSS version 19 for Windows [ 42 ].…”