The number of natural descents of a standard Young tableau. A natural descent of a standard tableau $T$ is an entry $i$ such that $i+1$ appears in a higher row than $i$ in English notation.

The number of recoils of a permutation. A '''recoil''', or '''inverse descent''' of a permutation $\pi$ is a value $i$ such that $i+1$ appears to the left of $i$ in $\pi_1,\pi_2,\dots,\pi_n$. In other words, this is the number of descents of the inverse permutation. It can be also be described as the number of occurrences of the mesh pattern $([2,1], {(0,1),(1,1),(2,1)})$, i.e., the middle row is shaded.

The number of big ascents of a permutation. For a permutation $\pi$, this is the number of indices $i$ such that $\pi(i+1)−\pi(i) > 1$. For the number of small ascents, see [[St000441]].

The tier of a permutation. This is the number of elements $i$ such that $[i+1,k,i]$ is an occurrence of the pattern $[2,3,1]$. For example, $[3,5,6,1,2,4]$ has tier $2$, with witnesses $[3,5,2]$ (or $[3,6,2]$) and $[5,6,4]$. According to [1], this is the number of passes minus one needed to sort the permutation using a single stack. The generating function for this statistic appears as [[OEIS:A122890]] and [[OEIS:A158830]] in the form of triangles read by rows, see [sec. 4, 1].

The number of descents of a set partition. The Mahonian representation of a set partition $\{B_1,\dots,B_k\}$ of $\{1,\dots,n\}$ is the restricted growth word $w_1\dots w_n\}$ obtained by sorting the blocks of the set partition according to their maximal element, and setting $w_i$ to the index of the block containing $i$. The word $w$ has a descent at position $i$ if $w_i > w_{i+1}$.

The number of descents of a permutation. This can be described as an occurrence of the vincular mesh pattern ([2,1], {(1,0),(1,1),(1,2)}), i.e., the middle column is shaded, see [3].

The number of descents of a standard tableau. Entry $i$ of a standard Young tableau is a descent if $i+1$ appears in a row below the row of $i$.

The number of big descents of a permutation. For a permutation $\pi$, this is the number of indices $i$ such that $\pi(i)-\pi(i+1) > 1$. The generating functions of big descents is equal to the generating function of (normal) descents after sending a permutation from cycle to one-line notation [[Mp00090]], see [Theorem 2.5, 1]. For the number of small descents, see [[St000214]].

The staircase size of the code of a permutation. The code $c(\pi)$ of a permutation $\pi$ of length $n$ is given by the sequence $(c_1,\ldots,c_{n})$ with $c_i = |\{j > i : \pi(j) < \pi(i)\}|$. This is a bijection between permutations and all sequences $(c_1,\ldots,c_n)$ with $0 \leq c_i \leq n-i$. The staircase size of the code is the maximal $k$ such that there exists a subsequence $(c_{i_k},\ldots,c_{i_1})$ of $c(\pi)$ with $c_{i_j} \geq j$. This statistic is mapped through [[Mp00062]] to the number of descents, showing that together with the number of inversions [[St000018]] it is Euler-Mahonian.

The maximum of the number of descents and the number of inverse descents. This is, the maximum of [[St000021]] and [[St000354]].