<s>
In	O
statistics	O
and	O
computer	B-Application
software	I-Application
,	O
a	O
convolution	B-Algorithm
random	I-Algorithm
number	I-Algorithm
generator	I-Algorithm
is	O
a	O
pseudo-random	B-Algorithm
number	I-Algorithm
sampling	I-Algorithm
method	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
generate	O
random	O
variates	O
from	O
certain	O
classes	O
of	O
probability	O
distribution	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
(	O
The	O
distribution	O
of	O
the	O
sum	O
is	O
the	O
convolution	B-Language
of	O
the	O
distributions	O
of	O
the	O
individual	O
random	O
variables	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
