The cyclomatic number of a graph. This is the minimum number of edges that must be removed from the graph so that the result is a forest. This is also the first Betti number of the graph. It can be computed as $c + m - n$, where $c$ is the number of connected components, $m$ is the number of edges and $n$ is the number of vertices.

The minimal number of occurrences of the forest-pattern in a linear ordering of the vertices of the graph. A graph is a forest if and only if in any linear ordering of its vertices, there are no three vertices $a < b < c$ such that $(a,c)$ and $(b,c)$ are edges. This statistic is the minimal number of occurrences of this pattern, in the set of all linear orderings of the vertices.

The minimal number of occurrences of the chordal-pattern in a linear ordering of the vertices of the graph. A graph is chordal if and only if in any linear ordering of its vertices, there are no three vertices $a < b < c$ such that $(a,c)$ and $(b,c)$ are edges and $(a,b)$ is not an edge. This statistic is the minimal number of occurrences of this pattern, in the set of all linear orderings of the vertices.

The size of a minimal vertex cover of a graph. A '''vertex cover''' of a graph $G$ is a subset $S$ of the vertices of $G$ such that each edge of $G$ contains at least one vertex of $S$. Finding a minimal vertex cover is an NP-hard optimization problem.

The monochromatic index of a connected graph. This is the maximal number of colours such that there is a colouring of the edges where any two vertices can be joined by a monochromatic path. For example, a circle graph other than the triangle can be coloured with at most two colours: one edge blue, all the others red.

The biclique partition number of a graph. The biclique partition number of a graph is the minimum number of pairwise edge disjoint complete bipartite subgraphs so that each edge belongs to exactly one of them. A theorem of Graham and Pollak [1] asserts that the complete graph $K_n$ has biclique partition number $n - 1$.

The number of edges minus the number of vertices plus 2 of a graph. When G is connected and planar, this is also the number of its faces. When $G=(V,E)$ is a connected graph, this is its $k$-monochromatic index for $k>2$: for $2\leq k\leq |V|$, the $k$-monochromatic index of $G$ is the maximum number of edge colors allowed such that for each set $S$ of $k$ vertices, there exists a monochromatic tree in $G$ which contains all vertices from $S$. It is shown in [1] that for $k>2$, this is given by this statistic.

The Grundy number of a graph. The Grundy number $\Gamma(G)$ is defined to be the largest $k$ such that $G$ admits a greedy $k$-coloring. Any order of the vertices of $G$ induces a greedy coloring by assigning to the $i$-th vertex in this order the smallest positive integer such that the partial coloring remains a proper coloring. In particular, we have that $\chi(G) \leq \Gamma(G) \leq \Delta(G) + 1$, where $\chi(G)$ is the chromatic number of $G$ ([[St000098]]), and where $\Delta(G)$ is the maximal degree of a vertex of $G$ ([[St000171]]).