The phrase "alarming statistic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a statistic that causes concern or worry due to its implications or significance.
Example: "The recent report revealed an alarming statistic about the rise in childhood obesity rates over the past decade."
Alternatives: "concerning figure" or "worrying data".
His travels to Basra, Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk turned up an alarming statistic you will not see in any government briefings on Iraq.
Meanwhile, one alarming statistic is regularly trotted out.
That alarming statistic has since dropped to 32percentt, according to data released last week by the National Drought Mitigation Center.
But an alarming statistic is new homes, if you look at the statistics from September '08 compared to '07, new home sales are down almost 40%, but existing home sales are up in the mid-'30s [percent].
One might attribute this alarming statistic to reckless inattention.
"The most alarming statistic has been in child poverty, now reckoned to be at 60% in the neighbourhood," said Black.
For a given threshold, an alarm is considered to be false if the alarm statistic exceeds the threshold prior to the outbreak onset.
Each of the above six metrics is a function of the alarm threshold, i.e., the threshold of the alarm statistic employed by BARD detector to discriminate between the non-outbreak and outbreak situations.
As president of a company that helps businesses and consumers deal with identity theft, I find this statistic alarming.
But Indian officials expressed alarm about one statistic: the ratio of young girls to young boys (counting those 6 years or younger) fell over the past 10 years, from 927 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001 to 914 per 1,000 in 2011.
The Neyman-Pearson (NP) theorem [13, 54, 55] states that, for a given probability of false alarm, the test statistic that maximizes the probability of detection is the likelihood ratio test (LRT) defined as.
