Abstract. Given a partition λ = (λ1, λ2, . . . , λ l ) of a positive integer n, let Tab(λ, k) be the set of all tabloids of shape λ whose weights range over the set of all k-compositions of n and OP k λ rev the set of all ordered partitions into k blocks of the multiset {1In [2], Butler introduced an inversion-like statistic on Tab(λ, k) to show that the rankselected Möbius invariant arising from the subgroup lattice of a finite abelian p-group of type λ has nonnegative coefficients as a polynomial in p. In this paper, we introduce an inversion-like statistic on the set of ordered partitions of a multiset and construct an inversion-preserving bijection between Tab(λ, k) and OP k λ. When k = 2, we also introduce a major-like statistic on Tab(λ, 2) and study its connection to the inversion statistic due to Butler.