Check in php if a view display exists?
Off the cuff, this should work:

$view = views_get_view($view_name);
if ($view &amp;&amp; $view-&gt;access('stats')) {
  // it has a 'stats' display
  $view-&gt;set_display('stats');
  $view-&gt;pre_execute();
  $view-&gt;execute();
  return $view-&gt;result; // or do whatever with it...
} 


but realize at this point you're halfway through the 'heavy lifting' views does, so you should probably use $view inside that if instead of then calling views_get_view_result()

ADDITION:  I added what I think the correct $view incantations should be for getting just the results above :)