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Margaret Jarman Hagood made significant contributions to the application of statistics to sociological research. Her landmark book, Statistics for Sociologists , published in , influenced the social sciences to become more quantitative and to embrace statistical methodologies. Margaret Jarman was born in Georgia, the second child and second daughter among the six children of Lewis and Laura Jarman.

Lewis Jarman was a mathematician by training who actively encouraged all of his daughters to pursue their education. Margaret briefly attended Chicora College in Columbia, S. During this time she also gave birth to her only daughter. Margaret and Middleton were divorced in Hagood went on to earn a Master's degree in mathematics from Emory University in After teaching mathematics for several years at the National Park Seminary for girls near Washington, D.

She completed her Ph. These studies were eventually published in as part of her book on Mothers of the South. After receiving her Ph. Part of her responsibilities was to teach a course in statistics for the graduate students in sociology. From this course came her influential text on Statistics for Sociologists. She spent the academic year as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, and in she was named head of the Farm Population and Rural Life Division of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

Among her achievements was the development of the widely used county level-of-living indexes.