"the statistic for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to introduce a specific statistic or numerical figure in a sentence. For example, "The statistic for regional unemployment in the last quarter was 8.2%."
Unfortunately, you can't glance through Bird's career statistics in the Official NBA Register and find the statistic for "most times the fans expected their best player to come through and he actually did".
To estimate the statistical significance of the AUC, we permute the list of ordered genes and recompute the statistic for the permuted data 1000 times to generate a null distribution for the AUC.
Information from all neighborhoods that contain a given voxel is then composed to produce the statistic for each voxel, and permutation tests are used to obtain a statistical parametric map of group differences.
The statistic for BAME deaths as a proportion of the total peaked in 2011, reaching 27.27% of all fatalities.
"Many people will now know the statistic for people killed by a partner or ex-partner; that two women a week in England and Wales die that way.
This means that by 2006, the statistic for top 10% wealth share is 23 percentage points higher using this raw series than it is in second graph above.
The histogram of the test statistic for the 299 genes is shown in Figure 4(a).
Third, the authors used the standardized mean difference as the summary statistic for the continuous variables.
The significance of the trend was based on the Wald statistic for the trend variable.
Wilk's Lamda was used as the test statistic for the significance of the discriminant function.
The test statistic for the logistic regression is the likelihood ratio (G).
