... possible legal sequences of the form(0, 0, . . . , 1, 1, . . . , 1), including the sequence of all ‘0’s and the sequence of all ‘1’s. The probability of observing the survival status sequence y ... dependency of the outputs by predicting the survival status of a patient at each of the timesnapshots tijointly instead of independently. We encode the survival time s of a patient as a binary sequence ... (conditional rate of failure/death), avoiding the difficulties of choosing between different forms of hazards. Second, by modeling the survival distribution asthe joint output of a sequence of dependent...