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First, a large dataset was recorded from a number of participants performing isometric contractions in different postures, while simultaneously recording HD-EMG channels and ground-truth force. The EMG signals were acquired from three linear surface electrode arrays, each with eight monopolar channels, and were placed on the long head and short head of the biceps brachii and brachioradialis. After data collection and pre-processing, fast orthogonal search (FOS) was employed for force estimation. To select a subset of channels, principal component analysis (PCA) in the frequency domain and a novel index called the power-correlation ratio (PCR), which maximizes the spectral power while minimizing similarity to other channels, were used. These approaches were compared to channel selection using time-domain PCA. We selected one, two, and three channels per muscle from the original seven differential channels to reduce the redundancy and correlation in the dataset. 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