To establish launch vehicle loads during atmospheric e ight, the statistical characteristics of the turbulence/gustinducedloadsneedtobedetermined.Recently,aMonteCarloanalysisprocedurewasdevelopedthatusesmeasured turbulence/gusts to establish launch-vehicle loads. The procedures developed to characterize the distribution of the data and to calculate tolerance bounds on these Monte Carlo loads are presented. Nomenclature C = cone dence level E = load enclosure FX or GX = cumulative distribution function of X FZ = cumulative distribution function of a standard normal random variable fX = probability density function of X n = sample size q X p = p-quantile of X s = sample standard deviation TX = tolerance bound for X tn,d , p = p-quantile of noncentral t distribution with n degrees of freedom and noncentrality parameter d X = random variable ¯ x = sample mean Z = standard normal random variable zp = standard normal p-quantile