diff --git a/examples/quantize-stats/quantize-stats.cpp b/examples/quantize-stats/quantize-stats.cpp
index 5979439583d50..0503009319e4e 100644
--- a/examples/quantize-stats/quantize-stats.cpp
+++ b/examples/quantize-stats/quantize-stats.cpp
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@
 #include <unordered_map>
 #include <vector>
 
-static const char * type_strs[] = { "f32", "f16", "q4_0", "q4_1", "q8_0", "i8", "i16", "i32", };
-static_assert(sizeof(type_strs) == GGML_TYPE_COUNT * sizeof(char *), "Incomplete type list");
-
 struct quantize_stats_params {
     std::string model = "models/7B/ggml-model-f16.bin";
     bool verbose = false;