Classical quadrature rules via Gaussian processes

In an extension to some previous work on the topic, we show how all classical polynomial-based quadrature rules can be interpreted as Bayesian quadrature rules if the covariance kernel is selected suitably. As the resulting Bayesian quadrature rules have zero posterior integral variance, the results of this article are mostly of theoretical interest in clarifying the relationship between the two different approaches to numerical integration.

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