Generalized Monty Hall problem

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A simulation of the Monty Hall problem outcomes for n doors (k opened) à la Tidyverse…

library(tidyverse)

# sample vectors whether they have one or more elements
resample <- function(x, ...) x[sample.int(length(x), ...)]

monty <- function(doors = 3, monty_opens_doors = 1, n = 10000, seed = 0) {
	set.seed(seed)
	tibble(car = sample(doors, n, replace = TRUE),
	       choice = sample(doors, n, replace = TRUE)) %>% 
	  rowwise() %>% 
	  mutate(monty_chose = list(resample(setdiff(1:doors, c(car, choice)), monty_opens_doors)),
	         win_no_switch = car == choice,
	         win_switch = car == resample(setdiff(1:doors, unlist(c(choice, monty_chose))), 1)) %>% 
	  ungroup() %>% 
	  summarise(win_if_not_switching = sum(win_no_switch) / n() * 100,
	            win_with_switching = sum(win_switch) / n() * 100)
}
> monty() # classic values
# A tibble: 1 x 2
  win_if_not_switching win_with_switching
                 <dbl>              <dbl>
1                 33.4               66.6
> monty(10) # more doors (10), 1 opened
# A tibble: 1 x 2
  win_if_not_switching win_with_switching
                 <dbl>              <dbl>
1                 10.4               11.0
> monty(10, 3) # 10 doors, 3 opened
# A tibble: 1 x 2
  win_if_not_switching win_with_switching
                 <dbl>              <dbl>
1                 10.4               15.2

So, switch…

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