Discussion of the article ‘Geodesic Monte Carlo on Embedded Manifolds’ by Simon Byrne and Mark Girolami

This article was published in Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Volume 40, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 825–845. We are now publishing the discussion of the paper in the following pages (pp. 3–21). For completeness, we include the title page of the article on the following page, showing the original publication details. The full text of the article can be read in Issue 40:4 on Wiley Online Library: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjos.12036/ful