anesthetic: nested sampling visualisation

Abstract

anesthetic is a Python package for processing nested sampling runs, and will be useful for any scientist or statistician who uses nested sampling software. anesthetic unifies many existing tools and techniques in an extensible framework that is intuitive for users familiar with the standard Python packages, namely NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib and pandas. It has been extensively used in recent cosmological papers (W. Handley & Lemos, 2019a