2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/62571Steingrimsson has recently introduced a partition analogue of Foata-Zeilberger's mak statistic for permutations and conjectured that its generating function is equal to the classical q-Stirling numbers of second kind. In this paper we prove a generalization of Steingrimsson's conjecture.13 pagesCombinatoricstext