Personal identification

Full name

Cecília Maria Vasconcelos Costa e Castro

Citation names

• Castro, Cecilia
• Azevedo, Cecilia
• Castro, C.
• Azevedo, C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

2B14-A02E-F4AB

ORCID iD

0000-0001-9897-8186

Researcher Id

ACU-7420-2022

Scopus Author Id

7005553813

Email addresses

• cecilia@math.uminho.pt (Professional)
• ceciliamvccastro@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Telephone

• 253604348 (Professional)

Addresses

• Campus de Gualtar, 4700 - 057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

• https://cmat.uminho.pt/user/651 (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

• Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability
• Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

	Degree	Classification
2002/12/20 Concluded	Ciências (Doutoramento) Major in Matemática Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
1995/04/28 Concluded	Matemática Aplicada (Mestrado) Major in Estatística Universidade do Porto, Portugal
1990/07/31 Concluded	Matemática (Ensino de) (Licenciatura) Major in Não Aplicável Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2002/12/20 - 2035	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Center of Mathematics of the University of Minho UIDB/00013/2020 10.54499/UIDB/00013/2020 Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Center of Mathematics of the University of Minho UIDP/00013/2020 10.54499/UIDP/00013/2020 Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31	Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Minho UIDP/00013/2020 10.54499/UIDP/00013/2020 Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31	Projecto Estratégico - UI 13 - 2011-2012 PEst-C/MAT/UI0013/2011 Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Book chapter	Castro, Cecilia; Amorim, Ana Paula. "A Note on Kendall’s Tau Coefficient for Gap Times in Presence of Right Censoring". In Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022 Workshops, 481-497. Springer International Publishing, 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-10536-4_32 Yining Ding; Huiwen Dong; Mingli Cao; F. Pacheco-Torgal; Cecilia Azevedo. "Recycled household ceramic waste in eco-efficient cement: A case study". 339-354. Elsevier, 2020. 10.1016/b978-0-12-819055-5.00017-6 Ding, Y.; Dong, H.; Cao, M.; Pacheco-Torgal, F.; Azevedo, C.. "Recycled household ceramic waste in eco-efficient cement: A case study". 339-354. 2020. Flores, Cristina; Rinke, Esther; Azevedo, Cecília. "Object realization across generations. A closer look on the spontaneous speech of Portuguese first and second generation migrants". Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Castro, Cecilia; OLIVEIRA, P. E.. "KERNEL-TYPE ESTIMATION OF BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION FOR ASSOCIATED RANDOM VARIABLES". In Multivariate Statistics. DE GRUYTER, 2012. 10.1515/9783110944655.17
Conference abstract	Castro, C.; Almeida, C.. Corresponding author: Castro, C.. "Optimizing Retail Sentiment Analysis with SentiLex-PT and Machine Learning". Paper presented in XXVI congresso SPE2023, 2023. Rodrigues, Joana; castro, cecilia; Costa e Silva, Elsa; Diamantino Insua Pereira. "Science communication theory and practice among geoscientists". Paper presented in Jornadas do ICT, 2023.
Conference paper	Ferreira, Carlos; Castro, Cecília; Pamplona, J.. "Statistical procedures applied to floods in the Douro river basin". 2023. Castro, Cecília. "Para alem do binário: Lógica Fuzzy na modelação de problemas complexos". 2023. castro, cecilia; Vilhena, Estela. "Depression, anxiety, and stress during COVID-19 in Portugal.". Paper presented in 7th International Conference on Public Health 2021: Driving innovations in healthcare, strengthening health systems: Addressing COVID-19 pandemic, 2021. Azevedo, Cecília; Silva, Rita Catarina Assunção Ribeiro; Horta, Ana Maria Lacerda Morgado Fernandes Carvalho Aboim; Correia-Neves, M. "On the determination coefficient and global adjustment test of goodness of fit". 2017. Ding, Y.; Han, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Azevedo, C.; Ding, Yining; Azevedo, Cecília Maria. "Hybrid use of steel- and carbon-fiber reinforced concrete for monitoring of crack behavior". 2012. Azevedo, Cecília Maria. "O que é a probabilidade? : interpretações da probabilidade". 2004.
Journal article	Asim Ghaffar; Muhammad Zia Ur Rahman; Víctor Leiva; Cecilia Castro. "Optimized design and analysis of cable-based parallel manipulators for enhanced subsea operations". Ocean Engineering (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117012. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117012 Kalaiarasi Kalaichelvan; Soundaria Ramalingam; Prasantha Bharathi Dhandapani; Víctor Leiva; Cecilia Castro. "Optimizing the Economic Order Quantity Using Fuzzy Theory and Machine Learning Applied to a Pharmaceutical Framework". Mathematics (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/math12060819. 10.3390/math12060819 Asim Ghaffar; Muhammad Zia Ur Rahman; Víctor Leiva; Carlos Martin-Barreiro; Imran Ali; Xavier Cabezas; Cecilia Castro. "Efficiency, optimality, and selection in a rigid actuation system with matching capabilities for an assistive robotic exoskeleton". Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jestch.2023.101613. 10.1016/j.jestch.2023.101613 Vishalakshi Kuppusamy; Maragathavalli Shanmugasundaram; Prasantha Bharathi Dhandapani; Carlos Martin-Barreiro; Xavier Cabezas; Víctor Leiva; Cecilia Castro. "Addressing a decision problem through a bipolar Pythagorean fuzzy approach: A novel methodology with application in digital marketing". Heliyon (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e23991. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e23991 Rahman, M.Z.U.; Akbar, M.A.; Leiva, V.; Martin-Barreiro, C.; Imran, M.; Riaz, M.T.; Castro, C.. "An IoT-fuzzy intelligent approach for holistic management of COVID-19 patients". Heliyon 10 1 (2024): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85179455460&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22454 Raydonal Ospina; Adenice G. O. Ferreira; Hélio M. de Oliveira; Víctor Leiva; Cecilia Castro; Giraldo, Ramón; Leiva, Víctor; et al. "On the Use of Machine Learning Techniques and Non-Invasive Indicators for Classifying and Predicting Cardiac Disorders". Biomedicines (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11102604. 10.3390/biomedicines11102604 Castro, Cecilia; Leiva, Víctor; Lourenço-Gomes, Maria do Carmo; Amorim, Ana Paula. Corresponding author: Leiva, Víctor. "Advanced Mathematical Approaches in Psycholinguistic Data Analysis: A Methodological Insight". Fractal and Fractional 7 9 (2023): 670. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract7090670. Published • 10.3390/fractalfract7090670 de Oliveira, José Sérgio Casé; Ospina, Raydonal; Leiva, Víctor; Figueroa-Zúñiga, Jorge; Castro, Cecilia. Corresponding author: Leiva, Víctor. "Quasi-Cauchy Regression Modeling for Fractiles Based on Data Supported in the Unit Interval". Fractal and Fractional 7 9 (2023): 667. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract7090667. 10.3390/fractalfract7090667 Giraldo, Ramón; Leiva, Víctor; Castro, Cecilia. "An Overview of Kriging and Cokriging Predictors for Functional Random Fields". Mathematics 11 15 (2023): 3425. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math11153425. 10.3390/math11153425 Geiza Silva; André Leite; Raydonal Ospina; Víctor Leiva; Jorge Figueroa-Zúñiga; Cecilia Castro. "Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithm with Local Search Applied to the Maximum Diversity Problem". Mathematics (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/math11143072. 10.3390/math11143072 Ospina, Raydonal; Gondim, João A. M.; Leiva, Víctor; Castro, Cecilia. "An Overview of Forecast Analysis with ARIMA Models during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Methodology and Case Study in Brazil". Mathematics 11 14 (2023): 3069. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math11143069. 10.3390/math11143069 Umapathy, Kalpana; Palanivelu, Balaganesan; Leiva, Víctor; Dhandapani, Prasantha Bharathi; Castro, Cecilia. "On Fuzzy and Crisp Solutions of a Novel Fractional Pandemic Model". Fractal and Fractional 7 7 (2023): 528. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract7070528. 10.3390/fractalfract7070528 Rahman, Muhammad Z. U.; Leiva, Victor; Ghaffar, Asim; Martin-Barreiro, Carlos; Waleed, Aashir; Cabezas, Xavier; Castro, Cecilia. "Fractional Transformation-Based Decentralized Robust Control of a Coupled-Tank System for Industrial Applications". Fractal and Fractional 7 8 (2023): 590. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract7080590. 10.3390/fractalfract7080590 Umapathy, Kalpana; Palanivelu, Balaganesan; Leiva, Víctor; Dhandapani, Prasantha Bharathi; Castro, Cecília; Kalpana Umapathy; Balaganesan Palanivelu; et al. "On fuzzy and crisp solutions of a novel fractional pandemic model". Fractal and Fractional (2023): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/85452. 10.3390/fractalfract7070528 Ospina, Raydonal; Baltazar, Samuel G. F.; Leiva, Víctor; Figueroa-Zúñiga, Jorge; Castro, Cecília; Raydonal Ospina; Samuel G. F. Baltazar; et al. "Robust semi-parametric inference for two-stage production models: A beta regression approach". Symmetry (2023): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/85512. 10.3390/sym15071362 Sanchez, Jeniffer D.; Rêgo, Leandro C.; Ospina, Raydonal; Leiva, Víctor; Chesneau, Christophe; Castro, Cecília; Jeniffer D. Sanchez; et al. "Similarity-based predictive models: Sensitivity analysis and a biological application with multi-attributes". Biology (2023): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/85507. 10.3390/biology12070959 Rahman, Muhammad Z. U.; Leiva, Victor; Ghaffar, Asim; Martin-Barreiro, Carlos; Waleed, Aashir; Cabezas, Xavier; Castro, Cecília; et al. "Fractional transformation-based decentralized robust control of a coupled-tank system for industrial applications". Fractal and Fractional (2023): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/86359. 10.3390/fractalfract7080590 Rodrigues, Joana; Castro, Cecília; Silva, Elsa Costa e; Pereira, D. I.; Costa e Silva, Elsa; Pereira, Diamantino Insua. "Geoscientists’ views about science communication: predicting willingness to communicate geoscience". Geoscience Communication 6 1 (2023): 15-25. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/83755. Published • 10.5194/gc-6-15-2023 Silva, Geiza; Leite, André; Ospina, Raydonal; Leiva, Víctor; Figueroa-Zúñiga, Jorge; Castro, Cecília. "Biased random-key genetic algorithm with local search applied to the maximum diversity problem". (2023): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/86364. 10.3390/math11143072 Castro, Cecília; Leiva, Víctor; Alcudia, Esdras; Montano, J.; Ospina, Raydonal; Gondim, João A. M.; Víctor Leiva; et al. "An epidemiological analysis for assessing and evaluating COVID-19 based on data analytics in latin American countries". Fractal and Fractional 12 6 (2023): https://hdl.handle.net/1822/85429. 10.3390/biology12060887 Moreira, Ana Filipa; Costa, Joana; Flores, Tiago; Castro, Cecília. "Mental Illness in COVID-19 Survivors". (2022): https://doi.org/10.51338/rppsm.257. https://doi.org/10.51338/rppsm.257 Moreira, Ana Filipa; Costa, Joana; Flores, Tiago; Castro, Cecília. "Doença mental em sobreviventes da COVID-19". Revista Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental (2022): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/75376. 10.51338/rppsm.257 Azevedo, Marta; Pinheiro, José; Castro, Cecília; castro, cecilia; Pinheiro, Jose. "Portuguese sentiment analysis applied to a reality show using Twitter and NLP in real time". JAERS International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Science 8 8 (2021): 155-159. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/73991. Published • 10.22161/ijaers.88.18 Barbosa, Pilar; Lourenço-Gomes, Maria do Carmo; Araújo, Sílvia; Castro, Cecilia; Athayde, Emilia. "Constraints on multiple dependencies in the left-periphery in European Portuguese". Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 19 1 (2020): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jpl.229. 10.5334/jpl.229 Barbosa, Pilar; Lourenço-Gomes, Maria do Carmo; Araújo, Sílvia; Castro, Cecília; Athayde, Emilia; Lourenco-Gomes, Maria do Carmo; Araujo, Silvia; Castro, Cecilia. "Constraints on multiple dependencies in the left-periphery in European Portuguese". Journal of Portuguese Linguistics (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/69019. 10.5334/jpl.229 Amorim, Ana Paula; Athayde, Emilia; Castro, Cecília; Ferreira, Marta Susana; Gonçalves, A. Manuela; Menezes, Raquel; Serra, Maria Conceição; et al. "UM departamento com ESTATÍSTICA". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/68537. Wang, Qingxuan; Ding, Yining; Zhang, Yulin; Castro, Cecília; castro, cecilia; Qingxuan Wang; Yining Ding; Yulin Zhang; Castro, Cecilia. "Effect of macro polypropylene fiber and basalt fiber on impact resistance of basalt fiber-reinforced polymer-reinforced concrete". Structural Concrete (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/71067. Accepted • 10.1002/suco.201900482 Rb-Silva, R.; Nobrega, C.; Azevedo, C.; Athayde, E.; Canto-Gomes, J.; Ferreira, I.; Cheynier, R.; et al. "Thymic fuction as a predictor of immune recovery in chronically HIV-infected patients initiating antiretreoviral therapy". Frontiers in Immunology 10 FEB (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062168500&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00025 Li, D.; Ding, Y.; Wang, Q.; Zhang, Y.; Azevedo, C.. "Hybrid effect of fibre mesh and short fibres on the biaxial bending behaviour of TRC". Magazine of Concrete Research 71 16 (2019): 869-880. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85068596825&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1680/jmacr.17.00284 Ding, Yining; Li, Dong; Zhang, Yulin; Azevedo, Cecília; Chen, Xiang-yu; Azevedo, Cecília Maria; Ding, Y.; et al. "Experimental investigation on the composite effect of steel rebars and macro fibers on the impact behavior of high performance self-compacting concrete". Journal of Central South University of Technology (English Edition) 18 5 (2017): 1677-1684. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/45667. 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.01.073 Ding, Y.; Zhang, C.; Cao, M.; Zhang, Y.; Azevedo, C.; Ding, Yining; Zhang, Cong; et al. "Influence of different fibers on the change of pore pressure of self-consolidating concrete exposed to fire". Construction and Building Materials 113 (2016): 456-469. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84962315198&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.03.070 Ding, Yining; Dong, Huiwen; Zhang, Yongchao; Azevedo, Cecilia; Yining Ding; Huiwen Dong; Yongchao Zhang; Azevedo, Cecília. "POSSIBLE REUSING OF HOUSEHOLD CERAMIC WASTES AS MINERAL ADMIXTURES IN ECOLOGICAL CEMENT/CONCRETE". II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCRETE SUSTAINABILITY - ICCS16 (2016): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/52197528/. Ding, Y.; Liu, H.; Ning, X.; Zhang, Y.; Azevedo, C.; Ding Yining; Liu Hekai; et al. "Shear resistance and cracking behaviour of SFRC beams with and without axial load". Magazine of Concrete Research 66 23 (2014): 1183-1193. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84912550726&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1680/macr.14.00043 Athayde, Emilia; Castro, Cecilia; Leiva, Víctor; Sanhueza, Antonio. "About Birnbaum–Saunders Distributions Based on the Johnson System". Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 41 11 (2012): 2061-2079. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2010.551454. 10.1080/03610926.2010.551454 Azevedo, C.; Leiva, V.; Athayde, E.; Balakrishnan, N.; Azevedo, Cecília Maria; Athayde, Emilia; Leiva, Víctor. "Shape and change point analyses of the Birnbaum-Saunders-t hazard rate and associated estimation". Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 56 12 (2012): 3887-3897. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864127485&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.csda.2012.05.007 Ding, Y.; Azevedo, C.; Aguiar, J.B.; Jalali, S.; Ding, Yining; Azevedo, Cecília Maria; Aguiar, J. L. Barroso de; Jalali, Said. "Study on residual behaviour and flexural toughness of fibre cocktail reinforced self compacting high performance concrete after exposure to high temperature". Construction and Building Materials 26 1 (2012): 21-31. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052885798&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2011.04.058 Chen, Xiang-yu; Ding, Yi-ning; Castro, Cecilia. "Combined effect of steel fibres and steel rebars on impact resistance of high performance concrete". Journal of Central South University 18 5 (2011): 1677-1684. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11771-011-0888-y. 10.1007/s11771-011-0888-y Azevedo, Cecilia; Oliveira, Paulo E.; castro, cecilia; Oliveira,P.E.; Azevedo, Cecília Maria. Corresponding author: Oliveira,P.E.. "On the kernel estimation of a multivariate distribution function under positive dependence". Chilean Journal of Statistics 2 1 (2011): 99-113. https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/50914872/. Published Leiva, Víctor; Athayde, Emilia; Azevedo, Cecília Maria; Marchant, Carolina; Sanhueza, Antonio; Athayde, E.; Azevedo, C.; et al. "Modeling wind energy flux by a Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with an unknowm shift parameter". Journal of Applied Statistics 38 12 (2011): 2819-2838. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2011.570319 Alevedo, Cecilia. "A note on convergence rates in the strong law of large numbers for associated sequences". DIWEB ' 09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH WSEAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTANCE LEARNING AND WEB ENGINEERING (2008): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/50914873/. Azevedo, C.; Oliveira, P.E.. "Covariance estimation of the limit process of the empirical process under association". Recent Advances in Applied and Theoretical Mathematics (2000): 78-83. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-4944235753&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Report	Castro, Cecília; Costeira, Hugo; Gouveia, João; Martins, Pedro; Silva, João. 2023. Tutorial R Shiny. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/82841.
Thesis / Dissertation	Cardoso, Teresa Maria do Espírito Santo. "Relatório de atividade profissional". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/45574. Martins, Nuno David da Costa. "Programação em R no estudo de probabilidades". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/44071. Santos, Paula Maria Viamonte da Silveira Pereira dos. "Estatística e probabilidades: 7º - 9º ano de Matemática e 10º - 12º ano de Matemática A". Master, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/34693. Gomes, Fernando Miguel Pereira. "Análise e processamento automático de dados". Master, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/29404. Marcelo, Carlos José das Neves. "Desenvolvimento, validação e análise estatística de questionários". Master, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/29425. Miranda, Graça Maria Almeida. "Um estudo sobre alguns aspetos caracterizadores dos estudantes do primeiro ciclo da Escola de Ciências da Universidade do Minho". Master, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/22733. Nogueira, Liliane Cristina Soares. "Estudo e caracterização do utilizador de email marketing". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/18199. Martins, Susana Rafaela Guimarães. "Estudo de fatores facilitadores do consumo de publicidade através de email marketing". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/18500.

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Tracking participants’ behaviour when performing linguistic tasks. This study aims to identify behaviours that accompany the psychological processes involved in reading sentences and deciding on a response. The response times of different participants' actions while they completed a questionnaire were measured. We focus on two datasets from the sample: cases in which participants changed their responses and cases in which they did not. The results show that chang. 2022. Lourenço-Gomes, Maria do Carmo; Castro, Cecília; Amorim, Ana Paula; Bezerra, Gitanna Brito. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/80210. 10.36505/ExLing-2022/13 A note on Kendall’s Tau coefficient for gap times in presence of right censoring. In several clinical and epidemiology studies, data from events that occur successively in time in the same individual, are frequently reported. Among these, the most common are recurrent events where each subject may experience a number of failures over the course of follow-up. Examples include repeated hospitalization of patients, recurrences of tumor, recurrent infections, among others. In this. 2022. Castro, Cecília; Amorim, Ana Paula; Cecilia Castro; Ana Paula Amorim; Castro, Cecilia. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/79123. 10.1007/978-3-031-10536-4_32 Microrganismos aos quadradinhos. A Ciência e a tecnologia dominam o nosso quotidiano com conceitos, produtos e processos associados a diversas áreas, desde a saúde, à alimentação e ao ambiente, fazendo da comunicação de Ciência um tema muito actual e de reconhecida importância cívica. No entanto, comunicar Ciência a um público não especializado implica alguns cuidados que passam pela motivação do público receptor para “ouvir”, e. 2015. Ribeiro, Daniel; Martins, Sara; Borges, Maurício; Azevedo, Cecília; Nobre, Alexandra. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/53667. On the multivariate kernel distribution estimator for distribution functions under association. In this note we consider the estimation of the multivariate distribution function Fp of the p-dimensional marginal of a stationary associated sequence. We show, under certain regularity conditions, the almost sure consistency and characterize the asymptotic behavior of the MSE. We also characterize the asymptotic optimal bandwidth. Under some stronger assumptions on the covariance this bandwidth r. 2005. Azevedo, Cecília Maria; Oliveira, Paulo E.. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/1815.