Monty-Hall in partial Markov

Last updated Aug 28, 2024

Tags: discrete partial Markov category.

References.

• A Problem in Probability, Letter to the Editor of the American Statistician (Selvin, 1975), first appearance of the problem.
• Parade 16, Ask Marylin (vos Savant, 1990), made the problem famous. Many statistics professors tried to correct vos Savant in not-so-polite ways.
• The ‘Monty Hall’ Problem, Everybody Is Wrong (VerBruggen) argues that some of the assumptions of the problem should be made explicit: what if the host did not know? what if the host acts maliciously and only offers a change if the car was picked correctly?
• Monty Hall, Monty Fall, Monty Crawl (Rosenthal) proposes variants: what if the host opened a door by accident? what if the host is tired and crawls to the closest door?
• The Official Lets Make a Deal Website on the Monty Hall Problem collects letters, books, and shows that talk about the Monty Hall problem.
• Abstraction and Reasoning for Probabilistic Systems (Gibbons) writes the problem of Monty Hall in Haskell.