qslice: Implementations of Various Slice Samplers

Implementations of the quantile slice sampler of Heiner et al. (2026+, in preparation) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2407.12608> as well as other popular slice samplers are provided. Helper functions for specifying pseudo-target distributions are included, both for diagnostics and for tuning the quantile slice sampler. Other implemented methods include the generalized elliptical slice sampler of Nishihara et al. (2014) <https://jmlr.org/papers/v15/nishihara14a.html>, latent slice sampler of Li and Walker (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2022.107652>, and stepping-out slice sampler of Neal (2003) <doi:10.1214/aos/1056562461>, as well as independence Metropolis-Hastings and random-walk Metropolis samplers.

Version: 0.4.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-10-22
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.qslice
Author: Matthew Heiner ORCID iD [aut], David B. Dahl ORCID iD [aut, cre], Sam Johnson [aut]
Maintainer: David B. Dahl <dahl at stat.byu.edu>
License: MIT + file LICENSE | Apache License 2.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: qslice results

Documentation:

Reference manual: qslice.html , qslice.pdf
Vignettes: Qslice package (source, R code)

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Package source: qslice_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: qslice_0.3.1.zip, r-release: qslice_0.3.1.zip, r-oldrel: qslice_0.3.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): qslice_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): qslice_0.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): qslice_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): qslice_0.4.0.tgz
Old sources: qslice archive

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