""" ================================================================= Test with permutations the significance of a classification score ================================================================= This example demonstrates the use of :func:`~sklearn.model_selection.permutation_test_score` to evaluate the significance of a cross-validated score using permutations. """ # Authors: Alexandre Gramfort # Lucy Liu # License: BSD 3 clause # %% # Dataset # ------- # # We will use the :ref:`iris_dataset`, which consists of measurements taken # from 3 types of irises. from sklearn.datasets import load_iris iris = load_iris() X = iris.data y = iris.target # %% # We will also generate some random feature data (i.e., 20 features), # uncorrelated with the class labels in the iris dataset. import numpy as np n_uncorrelated_features = 20 rng = np.random.RandomState(seed=0) # Use same number of samples as in iris and 20 features X_rand = rng.normal(size=(X.shape[0], n_uncorrelated_features)) # %% # Permutation test score # ---------------------- # # Next, we calculate the # :func:`~sklearn.model_selection.permutation_test_score` using the original # iris dataset, which strongly predict the labels and # the randomly generated features and iris labels, which should have # no dependency between features and labels. We use the # :class:`~sklearn.svm.SVC` classifier and :ref:`accuracy_score` to evaluate # the model at each round. # # :func:`~sklearn.model_selection.permutation_test_score` generates a null # distribution by calculating the accuracy of the classifier # on 1000 different permutations of the dataset, where features # remain the same but labels undergo different permutations. This is the # distribution for the null hypothesis which states there is no dependency # between the features and labels. An empirical p-value is then calculated as # the percentage of permutations for which the score obtained is greater # that the score obtained using the original data. from sklearn.model_selection import StratifiedKFold, permutation_test_score from sklearn.svm import SVC clf = SVC(kernel="linear", random_state=7) cv = StratifiedKFold(2, shuffle=True, random_state=0) score_iris, perm_scores_iris, pvalue_iris = permutation_test_score( clf, X, y, scoring="accuracy", cv=cv, n_permutations=1000 ) score_rand, perm_scores_rand, pvalue_rand = permutation_test_score( clf, X_rand, y, scoring="accuracy", cv=cv, n_permutations=1000 ) # %% # Original data # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # # Below we plot a histogram of the permutation scores (the null # distribution). The red line indicates the score obtained by the classifier # on the original data. The score is much better than those obtained by # using permuted data and the p-value is thus very low. This indicates that # there is a low likelihood that this good score would be obtained by chance # alone. It provides evidence that the iris dataset contains real dependency # between features and labels and the classifier was able to utilize this # to obtain good results. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.hist(perm_scores_iris, bins=20, density=True) ax.axvline(score_iris, ls="--", color="r") score_label = f"Score on original\ndata: {score_iris:.2f}\n(p-value: {pvalue_iris:.3f})" ax.text(0.7, 10, score_label, fontsize=12) ax.set_xlabel("Accuracy score") _ = ax.set_ylabel("Probability density") # %% # Random data # ^^^^^^^^^^^ # # Below we plot the null distribution for the randomized data. The permutation # scores are similar to those obtained using the original iris dataset # because the permutation always destroys any feature label dependency present. # The score obtained on the original randomized data in this case though, is # very poor. This results in a large p-value, confirming that there was no # feature label dependency in the original data. fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.hist(perm_scores_rand, bins=20, density=True) ax.set_xlim(0.13) ax.axvline(score_rand, ls="--", color="r") score_label = f"Score on original\ndata: {score_rand:.2f}\n(p-value: {pvalue_rand:.3f})" ax.text(0.14, 7.5, score_label, fontsize=12) ax.set_xlabel("Accuracy score") ax.set_ylabel("Probability density") plt.show() # %% # Another possible reason for obtaining a high p-value is that the classifier # was not able to use the structure in the data. In this case, the p-value # would only be low for classifiers that are able to utilize the dependency # present. In our case above, where the data is random, all classifiers would # have a high p-value as there is no structure present in the data. # # Finally, note that this test has been shown to produce low p-values even # if there is only weak structure in the data [1]_. # # .. rubric:: References # # .. [1] Ojala and Garriga. `Permutation Tests for Studying Classifier # Performance # `_. The # Journal of Machine Learning Research (2010) vol. 11 #