Dimensional stability is an important consideration for space structures such as antennas, optical platforms, and support structures. Composites offer the major advantage of tailorable coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE's). Theoretically, zero-CTE composite structures can be designed, but in practice the CTE's deviate from zero due to variations in materials and manufacturing techniques. An analytical technique has been developed to find both the inplane CTE's ([alpha]) and the analogous coefficients of out-of-plane thermal bending and warping (WT). Both the mean values and, more significantly, the standard deviations of these values are computed, based on statistical information about the materials and manufacturing processes used. In the case of laminates designed with zero mean values, these standard deviations are the performance metrics. An extensive experimental program has been carried out to verify the models. In addition to data collected from the literature, both unsymmetric laminates (with non-zero mean thermally induced out-of-plane deformation) and symmetric laminates (which in theory do not deform out of plane, but in practice do, due to manufacturing and material variations) were exposed to varying temperatures and their out-of-plane deformations measured. The analysis was used parametrically to find laminates with both minimized mean values and low standard deviations of the thermal expansion coefficients. The analysis was also used in sensitivity analyses to identify manufacturing factors and material properties that are most important to minimizing thermally induced deformations.