Incremental statistics in 11g, sunopsis
https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/entry/managing_optimizer_statistics

exec dbms_stats.set_table_prefs('SH', 'SALES', 'INCREMENTAL', 'TRUE');

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats( Owname=>'SH', Tabname=>'SALES', Partname=>'23_MAY_2008', Granularity=>'AUTO');