The number of cycles in the cycle decomposition of a permutation.

The number of global ascents of a permutation. The global ascents are the integers $i$ such that $$C(\pi)=\{i\in [n-1] \mid \forall 1 \leq j \leq i < k \leq n: \pi(j) < \pi(k)\}.$$ Equivalently, by the pigeonhole principle, $$C(\pi)=\{i\in [n-1] \mid \forall 1 \leq j \leq i: \pi(j) \leq i \}.$$ For $n > 1$ it can also be described as an occurrence of the mesh pattern $$([1,2], \{(0,2),(1,0),(1,1),(2,0),(2,1) \})$$ or equivalently $$([1,2], \{(0,1),(0,2),(1,1),(1,2),(2,0) \}),$$ see [3]. According to [2], this is also the cardinality of the connectivity set of a permutation. The permutation is connected, when the connectivity set is empty. This gives [[oeis:A003319]].

The number of external nodes of a binary tree. That is, the number of nodes that can be reached from the root by only left steps or only right steps, plus $1$ for the root node itself. A counting formula for the number of external node in all binary trees of size $n$ can be found in [1].

The number of topologically connected components of the chord diagram of a permutation. The chord diagram of a permutation $\pi\in\mathfrak S_n$ is obtained by placing labels $1,\dots,n$ in cyclic order on a cycle and drawing a (straight) arc from $i$ to $\pi(i)$ for every label $i$. This statistic records the number of topologically connected components in the chord diagram. In particular, if two arcs cross, all four labels connected by the two arcs are in the same component. The permutation $\pi\in\mathfrak S_n$ stabilizes an interval $I=\{a,a+1,\dots,b\}$ if $\pi(I)=I$. It is stabilized-interval-free, if the only interval $\pi$ stablizes is $\{1,\dots,n\}$. Thus, this statistic is $1$ if $\pi$ is stabilized-interval-free.

Number of simple modules with projective dimension at most 2 in the Nakayama algebra corresponding to the Dyck path.