And really it's just kind of a fun math thing to do to show you all of these connections, and where, really, the definition of covariance really becomes useful.
So we were installing what's called an " eddy covariance tower, " which is a series of instruments that measures the exchange of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, between the land and the atmosphere.
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Gosselin: So on the tower for eddy covariance, in principle, there's two main instruments: one instrument that measures the concentration of gas that we're interested in in the air and [another] that uses infrared.
Now, this right here-- so everything we've learned right now-- this right here is the covariance, or this is an estimate of the covariance of X and Y. Now what is this over here?
现在,这就是——所以现在学到的一切——这就是协方差,或者这是对 X 和 Y 的协方差的估。 现在这里是什么?