After a brief mention of Bose and Fermi oscillators and of particles which obey other types of statistics, including intermediate statistics, parastatistics, paronic statistics, anyon statistics and infinite statistics, I discuss the statistics of ``quons'' (pronounced to rhyme with muons), particles whose annihilation and creation operators obey the
q-deformed commutation relation (the quon algebra or q-mutator) which interpolates between fermions and bosons. I emphasize that the operator for interaction with an external source must be an effective Bose operator in all cases. To accomplish this for parabose, parafermi and quon operators, I introduce parabose, parafermi and quon Grassmann numbers, respectively. I also discuss interactions of non-relativistic quons, quantization of quon fields with antiparticles, calculation of vacuum matrix elements of relativistic quon fields, demonstration of the TCP theorem, cluster decomposition, and Wick's theorem for relativistic quon fields, and the failure of local commutativity of observables for relativistic quon fields. I conclude with the bound on the parameter
q for electrons due to the Ramberg-Snow experiment.
The quon algebra, which interpolates between the Bose and Fermi algebras and depends on a free parameter q , is used to generate deformed Marumori boson expansions for the pair and quadrupole operators. Then we obtain a pairing plus quadrupole-quadrupole Hamiltonian, for a single j -shell, in terms of these deformed bosonic operators. The Hamiltonian is diagonalized and its eigenvalues are compared with the ones obtained from the counterpart fermionic Hamiltonian. The deformation parameter helps in achieving the correct energy levels, which cannot be encountered in practice with the usual non-deformed boson expansion.