A diagram of an alias table that represents the probability distribution〈0.25, 0.3, 0.1, 0.2, 0.15〉 In computing, the alias method is a family of efficient algorithms for sampling from a discrete probability distribution, published in 1974 by Alastair J. Walker.[1][2] That is, it returns integer values 1 ≤ i ≤ n according to some arbitrary discrete probability distribution pi. The algorithms typic