- My QSAR model has correlation coefficient r2 = 0,90 and RMSE = 0,30 (training set: 102 entries),

- I did cross validation (Leave-One-Out) and it's also good result: xr2 = 0,86 and xRMSE = 0,36.

- But when evalutaing it with external set (26 entries), the correlation coeffcient is only 0,25.

As I know, cross validation is the method to avoid overfitting, so this result makes me a little confused. My QSAR model is built using MOE and has 13 descriptors. Anyone please tell me how to fix it please?

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