Abstract
The notion of applying statistical techniques to stained glass images is an intriguing one. This paper introduces systematic procedures to calculate statistics on digital images, gives a review of first-order statistics, second-order statistics, higher-order statistics and run-length statistics, and applies the measures to a collection of digital images of stained glass windows. Values of the statistics are reported. The scale invariance property of images is examined carefully, and characteristic scaling behaviours of stained glass images are found.