Contractor financial evaluation model (CFEM)
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Very little is known about the financial well-being of contractors, in part because they are generally privately held companies. The goals of this work were to develop a model based on data envelopment analysis to assess contractor performance and to use the model to provide a set of financial benchmarks for the industry. As the efficiency score of contractors decreased, the following trends were evident: decreasing current ratio, increasing accounts receivable and payable times, increasing debt to equity, increasing fixed assets to equity, increasing gross profits to sales, increasing administrative expenses to net worth, decreasing net income to sales, and decreasing net income to equity.Key words: DEA, benchmark, efficiency, peer group, DMU, building contractor, heavy civil contractor, specialty contractor, distinct cultural environment, frontier.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it