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 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 lec statistic, the sum of the inversion numbers of the hook factors of a permutation. For a permutation $\sigma = p \tau_{1} \tau_{2} \cdots \tau_{k}$ in its hook factorization, [1] defines $$ \textrm{lec} \, \sigma = \sum_{1 \leq i \leq k} \textrm{inv} \, \tau_{i} \, ,$$ where $\textrm{inv} \, \tau_{i}$ is the number of inversions of $\tau_{i}$.

The number of exclusive right-to-left minima of a permutation. This is the number of right-to-left minima that are not left-to-right maxima. This is also the number of non weak exceedences of a permutation that are also not mid-points of a decreasing subsequence of length 3. Given a permutation $\pi = [\pi_1,\ldots,\pi_n]$, this statistic counts the number of position $j$ such that $\pi_j < j$ and there do not exist indices $i,k$ with $i < j < k$ and $\pi_i > \pi_j > \pi_k$. See also [[St000213]] and [[St000119]].

The number of times a permutation switches from increasing to decreasing or decreasing to increasing. This is the same as the number of inner peaks plus the number of inner valleys and called alternating runs in [2]

The reversal length of a permutation. A reversal in a permutation $\pi = [\pi_1,\ldots,\pi_n]$ is a reversal of a subsequence of the form $\operatorname{reversal}_{i,j}(\pi) = [\pi_1,\ldots,\pi_{i-1},\pi_j,\pi_{j-1},\ldots,\pi_{i+1},\pi_i,\pi_{j+1},\ldots,\pi_n]$ for $1 \leq i < j \leq n$. This statistic is then given by the minimal number of reversals needed to sort a permutation. The reversal distance between two permutations plays an important role in studying DNA structures.

The number of deficiencies of a permutation. This is defined as $$\operatorname{dec}(\sigma)=\#\{i:\sigma(i) < i\}.$$ The number of exceedances is [[St000155]].

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 cycle peaks and the number of cycle valleys of a permutation. A '''cycle peak''' of a permutation $\pi$ is an index $i$ such that $\pi^{-1}(i) < i > \pi(i)$. Analogously, a '''cycle valley''' is an index $i$ such that $\pi^{-1}(i) > i < \pi(i)$. Clearly, every cycle of $\pi$ contains as many peaks as valleys.

The number of exclusive left-to-right maxima of a permutation. This is the number of left-to-right maxima that are not right-to-left minima.