Dear R People: Here is a non-R probability question, please: There is a problem, originally posed from an American game show, called "Let's Make a Deal." A contestant makes a selection of one door, from Doors 1 through 3. He or she knows that there are 2 goats and 1 car behind those doors. Once the contestant makes the selection, say Door 2, then the host, Monty Hall, tells him that there is a goat behind Door 1, and would he like to stay with the original Door 2 or switch to Door 3. There is a nice journal article dealing with this, but I can't find the reference. I do remember that there were pictures of goats in the margins of the article. (Scary). Anyhow, does anyone have the reference, please? Thanks in advance for any help. Sincerely, Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown One Main Street Houston, TX 77002 e-mail: hodgess at uhddx01.dt.uh.edu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Erin Hodgess <hodgess at uhddx01.dt.uh.edu> writes:> Dear R People: > > Here is a non-R probability question, please: > > There is a problem, originally posed from an American game show, > called "Let's Make a Deal." > > A contestant makes a selection of one door, from Doors 1 through 3. > He or she knows that there are 2 goats and 1 car behind those doors. > Once the contestant makes the selection, say Door 2, then the host, > Monty Hall, tells him that there is a goat behind Door 1, and would > he like to stay with the original Door 2 or switch to Door 3. > > There is a nice journal article dealing with this, but I can't find > the reference. I do remember that there were pictures of goats in > the margins of the article. (Scary). > > Anyhow, does anyone have the reference, please? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Sincerely, > Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D.Whew! For a minute, I thought you were asking for a discussion of the solution. This has been wasting bandwidth on numerous mailing lists over time.... Try a Google search for "Marilyn vos Savant Monte Hall" -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._