What is permutation testing in model evaluation?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Permutation testing evaluates significance by shuffling labels.

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It breaks relationship between features and labels to simulate null distribution. The observed metric is compared against this distribution to assess significance without strong assumptions.

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