The List sampler
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Re-run existing chain samples

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| Name        | list                                    |
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| Version     | 1.0                                     |
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| Author(s)   | CosmoSIS Team                           |
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| URL         | https://bitbucket.org/joezuntz/cosmosis |
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| Citation(s) |                                         |
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| Parallelism | embarrassing                            |
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This is perhaps the second simplest sampler - it simply takes all its samples from a list in a file and runs them all with the new pipeline.

This could probably be replaced with an importance sampler, and may be merged into it in future.




Installation
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No special installation required; everything is packaged with CosmoSIS




Parameters
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These parameters can be set in the sampler's section in the ini parameter file.  
If no default is specified then the parameter is required. A listing of "(empty)" means a blank string is the default.

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| Name       | Type                | Default   | Description                                                                      |
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| filename   | string              |           | cosmosis-format chain of input samples                                           |
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| save       | string              | (empty)   | if present the base-name to save the cosmology output from each sample           |
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| burn       | int, default=0      |           | Number of samples to skip from the start of the input file                       |
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| thin       | int, default=1      |           | Process only every n'th samples from the input file                              |
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| limits     | bool, default=False |           | Respect the parameter prior limits in the values file; otherwise use all samples |
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| chunk_size | int                 | 100       | Number of samples to process in each chunk for memory efficiency                 |
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