We describe an approach to slice sampling that replaces some real operations by binary and integer operations. This note is a contribution to the discussion of Neal's (2001) Slice Sampling paper to be published in Annals of Statistics.
@article{SkillingMacKay2002,
title={Slice Sampling -- a Binary Implementation},
author={John Skilling and MacKay, David J. C.},
year={2003},
Volume={31},number={3},
pages={753-755},
month={June},
url={http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/abstracts/slice.html},
journal={Annals of Statistics},
note={Discussion of {\em Slice Sampling\/} by Radford M.~Neal }
}
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