Monty Hall problem

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名词 n.
  1. A brainteaser regarding probability, in which a game show contestant picks a door to win a prize. One door conceals a car; the other two conceal goats. After the contestant picks a door, the host opens one of the two remaining doors which reveals a goat. Counterintuitively, it is then in the contestant's interests to switch to the remaining door.
    — A few mathematicians were familiar with the puzzle long before Ms. vos Savant's column. They called it the Monty Hall Problem—the title of an analysis in the journal American Statistician in 1976—or sometimes Monty's Dilemma or the Monty Hall Paradox.

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Monty Hall problems plural Monty Hall paradox alternative Monty's dilemma alternative

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Coined by American statistician Steve Selvin in 1975, named after Monty Hall, former host of the American television game show Let's Make a Deal.
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