What We Are Reading Today: ‘Discrete Choice Models’

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Updated 17 October 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Discrete Choice Models’

  • This book offers a foundational treatment of discrete choice models, introducing the logit model and its generalizations, logistic and Poisson regressions

Author: ALFRED GALICHON 

“Discrete choice models” are essential tools for understanding decision-making when individuals must choose among alternatives.

They have applications across the social sciences, notably in economics, marketing, and political science.

This book offers a foundational treatment of discrete choice models, introducing the logit model and its generalizations, logistic and Poisson regressions, and generalized linear models, and demonstrates their use in analyzing important econometric models.

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Updated 15 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Environmental attorney Christen Civiletto relates how the major chemical kingpins of the 20th century relentlessly and indiscriminately laid waste to Niagara Falls in her eye-opening, harrowing, intimate new book, “Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls.”

Expertly interweaving environmental crime, history, and memoir, “Thundering Waters” exposes the astonishing story of exploitation and ongoing abuse lurking in the shadows of one of the world’s most treasured natural wonders.