The CmdStan documentation should say a bit more about the output diagnostic-file option.
The sample methods use the output option diagnostic-file to designate files which contain the per-draw gradients of all parameters.
This is a .csv file, almost like the output file option's Stan CSV file (default name output.csv).
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Explain difference between CmdStan utility diagnose, Stan sampler method diagnose, and output diagnostics-file.
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Document the format of the output diagnostics-file - compare to output file=output.csv file:
- Both files have config, header-rows, and timing.
- The first columns of the data tables are the sampler state variables,
lp__, accept_stat__, etc.
- Only the
output.csv file has adaptation information (as a comment following the data table header row)