How to find Mean of Grouped Data: (iii) Method 3: The Step Deviation Method: Let $u_i= {x_i-a}/{h}$ where $a$ is the assumed mean and $h$ is the class size. Let $ū$ = ${Σf_i u_i }/{Σf_i}$ We have $u_i$ = ${x_i-a}/{h}$ Therefore $ū$ = ${{Σf_i(x_i-a)}/h}/{Σf_i}$ = $1/h$ ${[{Σf_ix_i}/{Σf_i}$ -$a{Σf_i}/{Σf_i}$${ ]}$ $ū$ =$1/h$ $[{x̄-a}]$ $hū$ =$[{x̄-a}]$ $x̄$ =$a$+$h ū$ $x̄$ =$a$+$h({Σf_i u_i }/{Σf_i})$