Statistical Techniques for High-Voltage Engineering

The far-ranging tasks of increasing productivity, use of raw materials and economic energy are forcing engineers to give far greater consideration to influencing factors that have a random action. Only in this way is it possible to ensure high reliability and the safety of products in service. This naturally applies to products in the electricity industry, and especially to the field of high-voltage apparatus. This introduction to mathematical statistics for the electrical engineer covers all statistical methods used in the preparation, evaluation and interpretation of experiments of a random nature. It includes the assessment of test methods customary in high-voltage engineering and sections on the breakdown of typical electrical insulating arrangements. Separate areas of mathematical statistics, such as statistical trial planning, questions of reliability assessment and stochastic processes, are mentioned more briefly. The text has been written from the engineer’s viewpoint and largely dispenses with mathematical deduction, at the same time ensuring mathematical logic and terminological accuracy.