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 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 dez statistic, the number of descents of a permutation after replacing fixed points by zeros. This descent set is denoted by $\operatorname{ZDer}(\sigma)$ in [1].

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 number of big ascents of a permutation after prepending zero. Given a permutation $\pi$ of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ we set $\pi(0) = 0$ and then count the number of indices $i \in \{0,\ldots,n-1\}$ such that $\pi(i+1) - \pi(i) > 1$. It was shown in [1, Theorem 1.3] and in [2, Corollary 5.7] that this statistic is equidistributed with the number of descents ([[St000021]]). G. Han provided a bijection on permutations sending this statistic to the number of descents [3] using a simple variant of the first fundamental transformation [[Mp00086]]. [[St000646]] is the statistic without the border condition $\pi(0) = 0$.

The number of isolated descents of a permutation. A descent $i$ is isolated if neither $i+1$ nor $i-1$ are descents. If a permutation has only isolated descents, then it is called primitive in [1].

The size of the overlap set of a permutation. For a permutation $\pi\in\mathfrak S_n$ this is the number of indices $i < n$ such that the standardisation of $\pi_1\dots\pi_{n-i}$ equals the standardisation of $\pi_{i+1}\dots\pi_n$. In particular, for $n > 1$, the statistic is at least one, because the standardisations of $\pi_1$ and $\pi_n$ are both $1$. For example, for $\pi=2143$, the standardisations of $21$ and $43$ are equal, and so are the standardisations of $2$ and $3$. Thus, the statistic on $\pi$ is $2$.

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

The number of visible descents of a permutation. A visible descent of a permutation $\pi$ is a position $i$ such that $\pi(i+1) \leq \min(i, \pi(i))$.

The number of descents of type 2 in a permutation. A position $i\in[1,n-1]$ is a descent of type 2 of a permutation $\pi$ of $n$ letters, if it is a descent and if $\pi(j) < \pi(i)$ for all $j < i$.