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Abstract
Statisticians often use Markov chains to generate points that have a similar support to observed data. This poses several challenges: - the data themselves are discrete and are dense on the underlying manifolds and complex structures. - the data are not uniformly distributed on the manifolds. I will discuss these issues and some solutions provided that can be useful in applied problems.