I have a finite collection of diffeomorphisms $g_1,\cdots,g_n$ taking the unit interval $I$ to disjoint subintervals $I_1, I_2,\cdots,I_n$. If $G$ is the semigroup they generate, the limit set of $G$ (also called the attractor of the IFS) is a Cantor set, and under suitable hypotheses, Bowen (and under slightly weaker hypotheses, Urbanski) showed that the Hausdorff dimension of this Cantor set is the smallest zero of the pressure function $P$, defined by $$P(t) = \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac 1 n \log \sum_{w \in G_n} \|w'\|^t$$ where $G_n$ is the set of elements in $G$ of word length $n$, and $\|\cdot\|$ is the sup norm (the hypotheses for Bowen's theorem is that the $g_i$ are uniformly contracting; Urbanski proves the same theorem when the $g_i$ are allowed to have neutral fixed points; my examples have such points).
This is all well and good, but how do I actually estimate the least zero of the pressure function for an explicit example? (yes, I mean numerically) My $g_i$ are all given by the restrictions of explicit polynomial functions of low degree, but the computational bottleneck seems to be the large number of elements in $G_n$.
Or is there a better method to estimate the Hausdorff dimension in practice? Note that although I just want to estimate the dimension, I would like to be able to (computer-assisted if necessary) give rigorous bounds on the error.