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The synthetic minority oversampling technique was used to balance the dataset and a random forest algorithm applied to predict GHD status.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>24 patients were recruited to the study and eight subsequently diagnosed with GHD. There were no significant differences in gender, age, auxology (height SDS, weight SDS, BMI SDS) or biochemistry (IGF-I SDS, IGFBP-3 SDS) between the GHD and non-GHD subjects. 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