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CmdStan User's guide - sampler auxiliary output file option diagnostic-file needs more doc #863

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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).

  • Explain difference between CmdStan utility diagnose, Stan sampler method diagnose, and output diagnostics-file.

  • 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)

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