The Star sampler

Simple star sampler

Name

star

Version

1.0

Author(s)

CosmoSIS Team

URL

https://bitbucket.org/joezuntz/cosmosis

Citation(s)

Parallelism

embarrassing

Installation

No special installation required; everything is packaged with CosmoSIS

Parameters

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.

Name

Type

Description

Default

nsample_dimension

integer

The number of star points along each dimension of the space

save

string

If set, a base directory or .tgz name for saving the cosmology output for every point in the star

(empty)

nstep

int, default=-1

Number of evaluations between saving output, defaults to nsample_dimension

allow_large

bool, default=False

Allow suspiciously large numbers of evaluations to be done