A general model is proposed for flexibly estimating the density of a continuous response variable conditional on a possibly high-dimensional set of covariates. The model is a finite mixture of asymmetric student-t densities with covariate dependent mixture weights. The four parameters of the...

Private equity investors seek to identify potential investment opportunities in growth stage private companies and rank their prospects relative to a cohort of companies such as an industry sector. Growth stage private companies often have investment transaction histories from which industry...