The property of median-unbiasedness is discussed in relation to other probability properties of point estimators. Median-unbiased estimators are given for the parameters of normal, binomial, and Poisson distributions, for which they are shown to be approximately equal to the commonly used mean-unbiased estimators, except with extreme parameter values or very small sample sizes.
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Allan Birnbaum (1964) studied this question.