[R] Monty Hall simulation

[Johannes Huesing]

cirrus74 <cirrus74 at hotmail.com> [Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:44:46AM CEST]:
> 
> Is it possible to simulate the Monty Hall problem using R? If so, could
> someone please show me how? Thanks for any help rendered.

The kind of simulation, as any thinking about this seeingly paradoxical
situation, depends on your mindset.

To my mind, 

niter <- 999
prize <- sample(c("car", "car", "goat"), niter, replace=TRUE)

would be a perfect simulation.

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