- "The key concept to quantify this is called *covariance*, which is how are two variables correlated with each other. Intuitively, if two x-values are close together, then we anticipate that the corresponding $f(x$ values are also close together. We can say that the values \"co-vary\", i.e. they are not independent. We use this fact when we integrate an ODE and estimate the next point, or in root solving when we iteratively find the next steps. We will use this idea to compute the weights that we need. The covariance is a matrix and each element of the matrix defines the covariance between two data points. To compute this, *we need to make some assumptions* about the data. A common assumption is that the covariance is Gaussian with the form:\n",
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