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Monty Hall Problem

Discover how to use discrete distributions in C# to analyze the Monty Hall problem. Learn to model probabilistic scenarios with random variables, understand the impact of switching choices, and implement likelihood functions to simulate outcomes accurately.

Application of the Stochastic Workflow Technology

You are probably familiar with the famous “Monty Hall” problem, but if not, here it is:

Monty Hall
Monty Hall

Problem

You’re on a game show hosted by Monty Hall, the handsome Canadian fellow pictured above. Before you, there are three closed doors. Behind a uniformly randomly selected door, there is a new car; behind the other two, there is nothing. You get to choose a door, and you get what is behind it as a prize: either a car or nothing. You randomly choose a door, again by some uniform process.

Monty — who knows where the ...