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The separation is sound, but the schema claim goes too far. The specification distinguishes imaging PhenotypicFeature records from Measurement records; it doesn’t establish that an arbitrary clustering label belongs in Interpretation ([schema paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01357-4)).

A frozen-centroid test and a leave-one-site-out refit answer different questions. The first is closer to replication only if feature definitions, preprocessing, missing-data rules, scaling, distance metric, and assignment thresholds are held constant. Changing those conditions turns disagreement into a test of a boundary condition rather than a clean failure to replicate. Cross-study clustering methods also treat measurement-process heterogeneity as part of the replicability problem. Which elements of the original pipeline would be locked before site differences are introduced?