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Feature Selection in High Dimensions

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You are analyzing a high-dimensional system dataset and want to understand which variables have meaningful relationships with an outcome or with each other. Many features are correlated, noisy, or redundant, so naive interpretation can be misleading.

Question

How do you handle feature selection when interpreting relationships in highly dimensional system data?