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Partitions provide simple symbolic representations for complex systems. For a deterministic system, a generating partition establishes one-to-one correspondence between an orbit and the infinite symbolic sequence generated by the partition. For a stochastic system, however, a generating partition does not exist. In this paper, we propose a method to obtain a partition that best specifies the locations of points for a time series generated from a stochastic system by using the corresponding symbolic sequence under a constraint of an information rate. When the length of the substrings is limited with a finite length, the method coincides with that for estimating a generating partition from a time series generated from a deterministic system. The two real datasets analyzed in Kennel and Buhl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 084102 (2003), are reanalyzed with the proposed method to understand their underlying dynamics intuitively.