The number of alignments of a decorated permutation. An alignment in a decorated permutation $w$ is a pair of directed edges $(i\mapsto w(i), j\mapsto w(j))$ which can be drawn as distinct noncrossing arcs oriented in the same direction in the circular chord diagram. According to [1], the number of alignments of a decorated permutation on $n$ letters with $k$ anit-exceedances equals and associated Grassmann interval $[u, v]$ equals $k(n - k) - [\ell(v) − \ell(u)]$.

The major index of a permutation. This is the sum of the positions of its descents, $$\operatorname{maj}(\sigma) = \sum_{\sigma(i) > \sigma(i+1)} i.$$ Its generating function is $[n]_q! = [1]_q \cdot [2]_q \dots [n]_q$ for $[k]_q = 1 + q + q^2 + \dots q^{k-1}$. A statistic equidistributed with the major index is called '''Mahonian statistic'''.

The number of inversions of a permutation. This equals the minimal number of simple transpositions $(i,i+1)$ needed to write $\pi$. Thus, it is also the Coxeter length of $\pi$.

The cardinality of the support of a permutation. A permutation $\sigma$ may be written as a product $\sigma = s_{i_1}\dots s_{i_k}$ with $k$ minimal, where $s_i = (i,i+1)$ denotes the simple transposition swapping the entries in positions $i$ and $i+1$. The set of indices $\{i_1,\dots,i_k\}$ is the '''support''' of $\sigma$ and independent of the chosen way to write $\sigma$ as such a product. See [2], Definition 1 and Proposition 10. The '''connectivity set''' of $\sigma$ of length $n$ is the set of indices $1 \leq i < n$ such that $\sigma(k) < i$ for all $k < i$. Thus, the connectivity set is the complement of the support.

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 stack-sorts needed to sort a permutation. A permutation is (West) $t$-stack sortable if it is sortable using $t$ stacks in series. Let $W_t(n,k)$ be the number of permutations of size $n$ with $k$ descents which are $t$-stack sortable. Then the polynomials $W_{n,t}(x) = \sum_{k=0}^n W_t(n,k)x^k$ are symmetric and unimodal. We have $W_{n,1}(x) = A_n(x)$, the Eulerian polynomials. One can show that $W_{n,1}(x)$ and $W_{n,2}(x)$ are real-rooted. Precisely the permutations that avoid the pattern $231$ have statistic at most $1$, see [3]. These are counted by $\frac{1}{n+1}\binom{2n}{n}$ ([[OEIS:A000108]]). Precisely the permutations that avoid the pattern $2341$ and the barred pattern $3\bar 5241$ have statistic at most $2$, see [4]. These are counted by $\frac{2(3n)!}{(n+1)!(2n+1)!}$ ([[OEIS:A000139]]).

The depth of a permutation. This is given by $$\operatorname{dp}(\sigma) = \sum_{\sigma_i>i} (\sigma_i-i) = |\{ i \leq j : \sigma_i > j\}|.$$ The depth is half of the total displacement [4], Problem 5.1.1.28, or Spearman’s disarray [3] $\sum_i |\sigma_i-i|$. Permutations with depth at most $1$ are called ''almost-increasing'' in [5].

The sum of the descent differences of a permutations. This statistic is given by $$\pi \mapsto \sum_{i\in\operatorname{Des}(\pi)} (\pi_i-\pi_{i+1}).$$ See [[St000111]] and [[St000154]] for the sum of the descent tops and the descent bottoms, respectively. This statistic was studied in [1] and [2] where is was called the ''drop'' of a permutation.

The number of left outer peaks of a permutation. A left outer peak in a permutation $w = [w_1,..., w_n]$ is either a position $i$ such that $w_{i-1} < w_i > w_{i+1}$ or $1$ if $w_1 > w_2$. In other words, it is a peak in the word $[0,w_1,..., w_n]$. This appears in [1, def.3.1]. The joint distribution with [[St000366]] is studied in [3], where left outer peaks are called ''exterior peaks''.

The inversion sum of a permutation. A pair $a < b$ is an inversion of a permutation $\pi$ if $\pi(a) > \pi(b)$. The inversion sum is given by $\sum(b-a)$ over all inversions of $\pi$. This is also half of the metric associated with Spearmans coefficient of association $\rho$, $\sum_i (\pi_i - i)^2$, see [5]. This is also equal to the total number of occurrences of the classical permutation patterns $[2,1], [2, 3, 1], [3, 1, 2]$, and $[3, 2, 1]$, see [2]. This is also equal to the rank of the permutation inside the alternating sign matrix lattice, see references [2] and [3]. This lattice is the MacNeille completion of the strong Bruhat order on the symmetric group [1], which means it is the smallest lattice containing the Bruhat order as a subposet. This is a distributive lattice, so the rank of each element is given by the cardinality of the associated order ideal. The rank is calculated by summing the entries of the corresponding ''monotone triangle'' and subtracting $\binom{n+2}{3}$, which is the sum of the entries of the monotone triangle corresponding to the identity permutation of $n$. This is also the number of bigrassmannian permutations (that is, permutations with exactly one left descent and one right descent) below a given permutation $\pi$ in Bruhat order, see Theorem 1 of [6].