Enumeration of involutions by descents and symmetric matrices

Let I n denote the set of all involutions of { 1 , 2 , ? , n } . We establish a connection between the number I ( n , k ) of involutions in I n with k descents and the number T ( n , k ) of k × k symmetric matrices with nonnegative integer entries and without zero rows or columns such that sum of all entries is equal to n .