Statistics collection recommendations – Teradata 14.0 - comment by carrie

Target Level Emulation mimics the customer environment by capturing such detail as DDL, stats, RAS, cost profiles, DBS Control detail, etc. from one system and then placing that detail on another system.
 
You should expect to get the same query plans on the target system, even though you have not collected statistics there.   
 
Thanks, -Carrie