In this paper, we consider the first-order integer valued autoregressive(INAR(1)) model where correlation structure is similar to that of the continuous valued AR(1) process. Several methods for estimating the parameters of the INAR(1) process with negative binomial marginal are discussed. We derive asymptotic distributions of these estimators. The results of a simulation study for these estimators methods show that the estimator which we present in this paper is better than the estimator which Klimko and Nelson(1978) presented. As an application we considered the estimator of M/M/1 queue length.