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Foreword

(This Foreword is not a part of ANSI/IEEE Std 101-1987, IEEE Guide for the Statistical Analysis of Thermal Life Test Data.)

ANSI/IEEE Std 101-1987 is substantially revised from IEEE Std 101-1972. Extensive revision was deemed necessary to reflect the widespread access of users of this document to advanced calculators and computers. Thus the tedious workbook approach used in previous versions was no longer necessary. However, Annex 3 of this document does contain a detailed worked example to provide guidance to those individuals without advanced calculators or computers.

This document was prepared by the Statistics Technical Committee of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society. The members of the working group were as follows:

G. C. Stone , Chair

T. W. Dakin , Past Chair

P. E. Alexander

A. Bulinski

T. Claussen

E. M. Fort  

J. Fothergill

H. N. Galpern

J. F. Lawless

W. B. Nelson

H. Rosen

G. A. Vincent

B. E. Ward

The members of the balloting committee that approved this document for submission to the IEEE Standards Board were as follows:

P. E. Alexander

A. Bulinski

T. Claussen

T. W. Dakin

E. M. Fort

J. Fothergill

H. N. Galpern

J. F. Lawless

W. B. Nelson

H. Rosen

G. C. Stone

G. A. Vincent

B. E. Ward

When the IEEE Standards Board approved this standard on September 10, 1987, it had the following membership:

Donald C. Fleckenstein , Chair

Marco W. Migliaro , Vice Chair

Andrew G. Salem , Secretary

James H. Beall

Dennis Bodson

Marshall L. Cain

James M. Daly

Stephen R. Dillon

Eugene P. Fogarty

Jay Forster

Kenneth D. Hendrix

Irvin N. Howell

Leslie R. Kerr

Jack Kinn

Irving Kolodny

Joseph L. Koepfinger*

Edward Lohse

John May

Lawrence V. McCall

L. Bruce McClung

Donald T. Michael*

L. John Rankine

John P. Riganati

Gary S. Robinson

Frank L. Rose

Robert E. Rountree

William R. Tackaberry

William B. Wilkens

Helen M. Wood