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This work considers a variation in which customers are heterogeneous in their service value (reward)\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    from completed service and homogeneous in the cost of staying in the system per unit of time. It is assumed that the values of customers are independent random variables generated from a common parametric distribution. The manager observes the queue length process, but not the balking customers. Assuming that the distribution of\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    admits a known parametric form, a Maximum Likelihood Estimator based on the queue length data is constructed for the underlying parameters of\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    . We provide verifiable conditions for which the estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal. 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