Note on Solving Probabilistic Programming Problems Involving Multi-Choice Parameters

We study the probabilistic programming problems with multi-choice parameters proposed by Acharya and Biswal (2011) that was published in Opsearch. We point out that the multi-choice parameters can be simplified to avoid the complicated solution procedure proposed by Acharya and Biswal (2011). We use the same numerical example of Acharya and Biswal (2011) to demonstrate that our simplification is effective to derive better minimum.