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Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption

Summary: Selectivity estimation without attribute independence: joint frequencies drive results; per-attribute histograms are inaccurate. Proposes two options: (a) multi-d histogram, (b) SVD-based joint modeling; experiments compare accuracy vs independence. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h8b13ee03e0598ebb
Venue
VLDB
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00033847446
Overall Rank
103 | 99.32%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{poosala_vldb97,
        title = {{Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption}},
        author = {Poosala, Viswanath and Ioannidis, Yannis E.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        volume = {23},
        pages = {486--495},
        year = {1997}
}

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