Solution:

• “partial fd” PFD of a set of attributes:

  • project on them; estimate fd

• Algorithm FDR (Fractal Dim. Reduction)

  • (backward elimination)
    • drop attr. that minimally affect the PFD
  • or: (forward selection)
    • greedily, pick attributes with max PFD

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