Our distinctive contribution was to look at government costs and performance
over a much longer
timescale than had been attempted
before and we believe our own study will contribute to transparency and accountability through our unique publicly - available compilation of consistent long - term time - series of official data.
I won't claim to know what specifics should go into programming these models, but I do know it will be critical for model developers to publish the characteristics their models are expected to predict, within what margin of error,
over what
timescales,
before the outputs of the models will be widely accepted.