Dakota Reference Manual: predicted_variance

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predicted_variance

Pick points with highest variance

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

## Description

The predicted variance metric uses the predicted variance of the Gaussian process surrogate as the score of a candidate point. Thus, the adaptively chosen points will be in areas of highest uncertainty according to the Gaussian process model.