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First provide a summary of the paper, and then address the following criteria: Quality, clarity, originality and significance. The paper proposes an estimation strategy for recovering the parameters of a finite state Markov chain given observed stationary frequencies of some states. Although the problem proposed is potentially very interesting, the paper does not appear to be in a mature state. Some fundamental issues are not adequately addressed, while the evaluation is limited, and the writing quality is not strong. Note that there is an uncountable set of ergodic transition models that can exactly match a given subset of stationary frequencies when the number of observed stationary state frequencies is small relative to the total number of states.