The crossing number of a set partition. This is the maximal number of chords in the standard representation of a set partition, that mutually cross.

The nesting number of a set partition. This is the maximal number of chords in the standard representation of a set partition that mutually nest.

The length of the longest partition in the vacillating tableau corresponding to a set partition. To a set partition $\pi$ of $\{1,\dots,r\}$ with at most $n$ blocks we associate a vacillating tableau, following [1], as follows: create a triangular growth diagram by labelling the columns of a triangular grid with row lengths $r-1, \dots, 0$ from left to right $1$ to $r$, and the rows from the shortest to the longest $1$ to $r$. For each arc $(i,j)$ in the standard representation of $\pi$, place a cross into the cell in column $i$ and row $j$. Next we label the corners of the first column beginning with the corners of the shortest row. The first corner is labelled with the partition $(n)$. If there is a cross in the row separating this corner from the next, label the next corner with the same partition, otherwise with the partition smaller by one. Do the same with the corners of the first row. Finally, apply Fomin's local rules, to obtain the partitions along the diagonal. These will alternate in size between $n$ and $n-1$. This statistic is the length of the longest partition on the diagonal of the diagram.

The number of factors of the Stanley symmetric function associated with a permutation. For example, the Stanley symmetric function of $\pi=321645$ equals $20 m_{1,1,1,1,1} + 11 m_{2,1,1,1} + 6 m_{2,2,1} + 4 m_{3,1,1} + 2 m_{3,2} + m_{4,1} = (m_{1,1} + m_{2})(2 m_{1,1,1} + m_{2,1}).$

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 nontrivial cycles in the cycle decomposition of a permutation. This statistic is equal to the difference of the number of cycles of $\pi$ (see [[St000031]]) and the number of fixed points of $\pi$ (see [[St000022]]).

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 runs of ones in a binary word.

The balance of a binary word. The balance of a word is the smallest number $q$ such that the word is $q$-balanced [1]. A binary word $w$ is $q$-balanced if for any two factors $u$, $v$ of $w$ of the same length, the difference between the number of ones in $u$ and $v$ is at most $q$.

The rank of the largest boolean interval in a poset.