Mary Batcher, PhD,
PStat®
Mary Batcher has over 25 years of experience using design based and model based sampling and estimation to address the needs of clients in federal government and private industry to test and improve new and existing systems, to identify and estimate overbillings in federal healthcare programs, and to quantify corporate income tax deductions and credits. She is expert at identifying the right statistical solution to client problems. At Ernst & Young, she began a statistical practice that started with $30,000 in revenue in 1997 and was over $4.5 million when she retired in 2015. As the National Director for Statistics, Mary oversaw the technical aspects of over 400 projects a year and hers was the only Big 4 sampling group with no sample ever rejected by the IRS. Previously, Mary worked as the Chief of Statistical Support for the Statistics of Income Division at the Internal Revenue Service. From 1985 - 1988, she worked as a statistician for the National Center for Education Statistics. Mary has received many honors and awards including the American Statistical Association’s Founders Award, an Assistant Commissioners Award at the Internal Revenue Service and was a finalist for the Rosemarie Meschi Award at Ernst & Young. She received her professional Statistician Accreditation from the American Statistical Association in 2010. She is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and an Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association.