Data Analysis for Chemists - Application to QSAR and Chemical Product Design

P.M. Dean, Pesticide Science, 48, 197-8(1996).
"The subtitle to this book, `Applications to QSAR and Chemical product Design', gives a better indication of its contents. Professor Livingstone is a leading authority in this research area, having formerly managed the QSAR section at SmithKline Beecham pharmaceuticals and having made a number of seminal contributions to advance the research in this field. The book is a successful practical account of how to do QSAR, particularly, but not entirely, with respect to medicinal chemistry. In my estimation, the book deserves to be on the desk of all scientists and students working with QSAR methods."....... "Regression analysis, often a topic which students find difficult for multiple regression problems, is dealt with painlessly. In my opinion chapter 6 is probably the best 25 pages that can be found on the subject.".......... "I am very positive about the value of this book. It is impeccably written and will be my choice to recommend to students learning about QSAR."

R. Fleischer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 36, 1219 (1997).
"This is neither a student textbook nor a theoretical work on statistical methods. It is a concise, highly informative, and skillfully written practical handbook on the planning of experiments, the processing and analysis of data, computational methods, the construction and interpretation of quantitative models, and the presentation of results."......"In the last chapter the author discusses the application of artificial intelligence methods to the analysis of data. In a densely concentrated, but nevertheless easily understandable treatment, he describes the use of expert systems for the calculation of ditribution coefficients, for predicting toxicity , and for investigating chemical reaction pathways."....."To summarize, this book will be especially useful to the nonspecialist, as it gives a clear description of the various methods of analysis and their advantages and disadvantages."